Oct. 1, 2012 at 11:33am with 5 notes
you should read the annotations to the wastelanddo it do it do itseriously eliot makes me feel like the village idiotwritin' whole novels based on the content of this poem and its god damn annotationsand there are a couple of bands in there toodid i mention that this is a t s eliot blog?
Have you read the annotations to “The Wasteland”?

Who is the third who walks always beside you? 

When I count, there are only you and I together 360

But when I look ahead up the white road 

There is always another one walking beside you 

Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded 

I do not know whether a man or a woman 

—But who is that on the other side of you?

360. The following lines were stimulated by the account of one of the Antarctic expeditions (I forget which, but I think one of Shackleton’s): it was related that the party of explorers, at the extremity of their strength, had the constant delusion that there was one more member than could actually be counted. 

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