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Goblinmonger

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1. Love, love, love Eliot

Reply to cali (Original post)

Mon Jan 4, 2016, 02:07 PM

Jan 2016

"The Hollow Men" is probably my favorite poem.

I think Eliot's fatalism runs much deeper than just fertility and death, but great thoughts by our President. "Irreconcilable ambivalence" is a fantastic phrase.

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