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Arena - T.S. Eliot - Part 8 (BBC)

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Uploaded by on Dec 12, 2009

A biography/documentary on T.S. Eliot

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  • No dislike. I like it.

  • Then fools' approval stings, and honour stains.

    From wrong to wrong the exasperated spirit proceeds,

    Unless restored by that refining fire

    Where you must move in measure, like a dancer.

  • Second, the conscious impotence of rage at human folly,

    And the laceration of laughter at what ceases to amuse.

    And last, the rending pain of re-enactment

    Of all that you have done, and been; the shame

    Of motives late revealed, and the awareness

    Of things ill done and done to others' harm

    Which once you took for exercise of virtue.

  • The editing of the sequences is terrible. I had this wholly useless ambition of memorizing 4Q, and the lines of the gifts reserved for age, brutally interrupted here, are precious to me:

    Let me disclose the gifts reserved for age

    To set a crown upon your lifetime's efforts:

    First, the cold friction of expiring sense,

    Without enchantment, offering no promise

    But bitter tastelessness of shadow fruit

    As body and mind begin to fall asunder.

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