The Waste Land

Who is the third who walks always beside you?
When I count, there are only you and I together
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?

from The Waste Land
by T.S. Eliot
Part V, What the Thunder Said, lines 359-365

In his notes Eliot alluded to the account in Luke 24, lines 13-16 of an unseen resurrected Christ walking with two of his disciples on the road to Emmaus. Allusion is also made to Shackleton's passage involving three of the Antarctic explorers imagining a fourth by their side.

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I remember hearing this in English Lit a billion years ago. The words struck a chord in me back then. You, my dear, have done a superb job. So haunting and mesmerizing. Gave me the chills first time I watched it. Great film work - I love it!!
KayLo60

Haunting. Great reading of Eliot!5*
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