"Preludes" by T.S Eliot (poetry reading)

Eliot exercising his usual ability to look at the world's tapestry from the seamy side, in a stream-of-consciousness.

I was taken aback that there were still horse-drawn cabs at the time he was writing but, of course, there were. On checking he wrote it in 1917 and here's a photograph of a hansom cab waiting for a fare in 1927.

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[edwinboy57]

WHO IS THE SPEAKER!

[RyleHN]

@cheekydoodle a year ago, but maybe you'll see this. Could you explain how he never mentions another?

[djfalconman]

0:02 part 1

0:35 part 2

0:58 part 3

1:34 part 4

[cheekydoodle]

I love who this is focused in a city or town, but he never once mentions another person...

[grapefruitm00n]

Love it!

[souljaEXVOTO]

At this, the violet hour, my human taxi

was waiting all day for just that poem.