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  • A small crowd meanwhile had gathered at the gates of Buckingham
    Palace. Listlessly, yet confidently, poor people all of them, they
    waited; looked at the Palace itself with the flag flying; at
    Victoria, billowing on her mound, admired her shelves of running
    water, her geraniums; singled out from the motor cars in the Mall
    first this one, then that; bestowed emotion, vainly, upon commoners
    out for a drive; recalled their tribute to keep it unspent while
    this car passed and that; and all the time let rumour accumulate in
    their veins and thrill the nerves in their thighs at the thought of
    Royalty looking at them; the Queen bowing; the Prince saluting; at
    the thought of the heavenly life divinely bestowed upon Kings; of
    the equerries and deep curtsies; of the Queen's old doll's house;
    of Princess Mary married to an Englishman, and the Prince--ah! the
    Prince! who took wonderfully, they said, after old King Edward, but
    was ever so much slimmer. The Prince lived at St. James's; but he
    might come along in the morning to visit his mother.

Eliot, T. S. 1922. The Waste Land

  • —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing,  40Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
  • Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel, And here is the one-eyed merchant, and this card, Which is blank, is something he carries on his back, Which I am forbidden to see.
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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf - Summaries and Commentaries

  • And, from far above the story itself, we hear Virginia Woolf meditating, reflecting on the crowd’s need to be associated with Greatness. The car is just a car—and even the Queen, if she be inside, is only a woman.
  • Yet this potent mystery takes the crowd away from its sense of being ordinary. The car endows each person with an Extraordinary Moment. Everyone feels individually distinguished because they have encountered the possibility of being in the same street with royalty, with England. We observe the blind awe of the crowd and listen to Virginia Woolf comment that only historians will know for sure who is in the mysterious car. Her attitude is like the attitude of Clarissa when, earlier, she was crossing London streets. Both women smile at the comic folly of us mortals.
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24 May 09

Revealed: the remarkable tale of TS Eliot's late love affair | Culture | The Observer

  • As well as being the most influential poet of his time, TS Eliot was also a director of the publisher Faber & Faber. In this role of editorial patron, he discovered and nurtured many of the greatest talents of the age: WH Auden, Stephen Spender, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Robert Lowell, Marianne Moore and many others across the English-speaking world.
  • By 1923, newly acclaimed for The Waste Land, he was renting rooms in Charing Cross Road, had adopted a bizarre alias, "Captain Eliot", and taken to wearing pale green face powder and lipstick.
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