The speaker asks the ghostly figure, Stetson, about the destiny of a corpse planted in his backyard. He confronts a figure with whom he once fought in a battle which appears to conflate the clashes of World War I with the Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage both futile and excessively destructive wars. The speaker walks through a London inhabited by ghosts of the deceased. The final episode of this section is easily the most surreal. The next installment in this section refers to an imaginative tarot reading, where some of the cards Eliot comprises from the reading are not part of a genuine tarot deck. The nearly threatening senile tone is blended with childhood reminiscences about a “hyacinth girl” and a nihilistic epiphany the speaker gets following an encounter with her. Evelyn Waugh took the title for one of his funniest books from such lines. The second section is a prophetic, apocalyptic invitation to journey to a desert waste, in which the speaker will reveal that the reader “something distinct from Your shadow at morning striding behind you / or your shadow at evening rising to meet you will show you fear in a handful of dust.
The girl blends a meditation on the seasons with remarks on the bare state of her present existence I read, a lot of the night, and go south in winter. The Waste Lands – The Dark Tower 3 Audiobook. The first is an autobiographical snippet in the childhood of an aristocratic woman, where she recalls sledding and asserts that she is German, not Russian (this could be significant if the woman is intended to be part of the recently defeated Austrian royal family. It is made up of four vignettes, each apparently from the perspective of a different speaker. The first section of The Waste Land takes its title from a line in the ancestral burial service.
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