Historian of Architecture / Frances and Gilbert P. Schafer Visiting Professor of Architecture @TaubmanCollege / Views my own
A lengthy passage in Mircea Cărtărescu's Solenoid ends with the following: "I offer you a speck of dust from the world we carpet-bomb with our wonders!" ... reminiscent of this from Eliot's The Waste Land: "I will show you fear in a handful of dust." #MirceaCărtărescu #TSEliot
Director of Geo-economics, Japan Chair ジャパン・チェア・プログラム Senior Fellow for Japanese Security Studies at The International Institute for Strategic Studies @iiss_org
Fine review of 2 books on Eliot/ The Waste Land. Was lucky enough to have ‘done’ the WL for A-level. Still thrills to read, hear, see it. Prefer to think of it minus the biographical clutter, tho. Why should we care about TS Eliot’s The Waste Land? v @FT https://t.co/W8I03l7x08
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The BBC Turns 100. Now Its Five Biggest Challenges: https://t.co/7BOkJalqD8 #arts #artsnews Great institutions, like great literature, are often born from existential angst, as urgent responses to the prevailing horrors of their era. As with TS Eliot's The Waste Land, rel... https://t.co/wdI7gGT4Hu