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Mentioned in 19 episodes
The waste land
Book • 1922
The Waste Land is a 434-line poem divided into five sections: 'The Burial of the Dead', 'A Game of Chess', 'The Fire Sermon', 'Death by Water', and 'What the Thunder Said'.
It is a complex and erudite work that incorporates numerous allusions to mythology, classical literature, and religious texts.
The poem reflects the spiritual disillusionment and moral decay of the Western world after World War I, portraying a sterile and fragmented society.
It was initially met with controversy due to its innovative and often obscure style but has since become a central work in the modernist canon.
It is a complex and erudite work that incorporates numerous allusions to mythology, classical literature, and religious texts.
The poem reflects the spiritual disillusionment and moral decay of the Western world after World War I, portraying a sterile and fragmented society.
It was initially met with controversy due to its innovative and often obscure style but has since become a central work in the modernist canon.
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Mentioned in 19 episodes
Mentioned by speaker 3 as a modernist masterpiece by T.S. Eliot.
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Billion dollar babies: Trump-Musk spat
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Tom Holland and 
Dominic Sandbrook as one of the greatest poems in English, published in 1922.
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook as one of the greatest poems in English, published in 1922.
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136. 1922: The Birth of the Modern World Part 1
Mentioned when sharing Ethan Malik's test of ElevenLabs' new model with a passage from it.
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Gabriel Kennedy in relation to Robert Anton Wilson's use of the metaphor "Chapel Perilous."
Gabriel Kennedy in relation to Robert Anton Wilson's use of the metaphor "Chapel Perilous."
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Gabriel Kennedy — The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson (EP.258)
Mentioned by Zachary Marlow when discussing the symbolism of the Holy Grail and the concept of the wasteland.
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail (w/ Zachary Marlow)
Mentioned by Arshia Sattar in relation to the title of 
Girish Karnad ’s play, "A Heap of Broken Images."
Girish Karnad ’s play, "A Heap of Broken Images."
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175. #GirishKarnad(1/9) The River Has No Fear of Memories: An Introduction
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Brad Harris as a literary work capturing the fragmentation of meaning after the Great War.
Brad Harris as a literary work capturing the fragmentation of meaning after the Great War.
The Decline of the West: Oswald Spengler’s Prophetic Vision
Mentioned by Tom Keene in relation to the book's title.
Foreign Policy Research Institute Chair of Geopolitics Robert Kaplan Talks Trump Administration
Mentioned when discussing fragments and reassembling something that is broken back into totality.
Stephen Okey, "A Theology of Conversation: An Introduction to David Tracy" (Liturgical Press, 2018)
