
Four Quartets
In Our Time: Culture
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The Way Forward Is the Way Down
It's full of these riddles or paradoxes, which you can't really make sense of in any particularly direct way. I think he he considers these like aids to spiritual meditation. In some ways, that they are like exercises which generating te in the reader, a sense of the ineffable and beyond. It's also interesting, though, that all four er er titles have quite personal significance. For elliot burnt norton, a place that he visited with emily hale, east coca, where his ancestors came from, and where he was buried. A is less directly personal, but he makes of little gidding a kind of vision of the ideal a british
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