Comments on: The Hollow Men - T.S Eliot http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/11/26/the-hollow-men-ts-eliot/ hopping along the corridors of power Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:44:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: katie http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/11/26/the-hollow-men-ts-eliot/#comment-20041 katie Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:05:04 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/11/26/the-hollow-men-ts-eliot/#comment-20041 Good on you Russ, Glad to see you managed to read something decent along the way before all the political philos took over.. ;-) Ever come across T S Garp.... hehehehe! Bit of an '80's joke, that :-) Good on you Russ,
Glad to see you managed to read something decent along the way before all the political philos took over.. ;-)

Ever come across T S Garp…. hehehehe!

Bit of an ’80’s joke, that :-)

]]> By: frog http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/11/26/the-hollow-men-ts-eliot/#comment-19813 frog Tue, 28 Nov 2006 05:53:11 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/11/26/the-hollow-men-ts-eliot/#comment-19813 Good call lyndon. Brash is definitely a Prufrock. Good call lyndon. Brash is definitely a Prufrock.

]]> By: lyndon http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/11/26/the-hollow-men-ts-eliot/#comment-19712 lyndon Sun, 26 Nov 2006 22:27:32 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/11/26/the-hollow-men-ts-eliot/#comment-19712 And Phil - for another angle on TS you might try Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. And Phil - for another angle on TS you might try Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.

]]> By: lyndon http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/11/26/the-hollow-men-ts-eliot/#comment-19711 lyndon Sun, 26 Nov 2006 22:25:50 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/11/26/the-hollow-men-ts-eliot/#comment-19711 My English lecturer would have dryly chastised you for not including the epigraphs (or whatever they would actually be called) just between the title and the "I" for the first part - which, come to think of it, isn't there either. " Mistah Kurtz—he dead. A penny for the Old Guy " Actually Don gives me more the general impression of a Prufrock but I wouldn't try to read too much into that. My English lecturer would have dryly chastised you for not including the epigraphs (or whatever they would actually be called) just between the title and the “I” for the first part - which, come to think of it, isn’t there either.

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Mistah Kurtz—he dead.

A penny for the Old Guy

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Actually Don gives me more the general impression of a Prufrock but I wouldn’t try to read too much into that.

]]> By: phil u http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/11/26/the-hollow-men-ts-eliot/#comment-19672 phil u Sun, 26 Nov 2006 05:41:11 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/11/26/the-hollow-men-ts-eliot/#comment-19672 he didn't hold back..did he..?..that t.s...? seems to have been quite a miserable bast*rd eh..? with a reasonably bleak world view... (y'know..a 'glass half-empty' sorta guy..) (are you trying to cheer us all up russell..?... or is this just you dancing on brashs' grave...?.. and being 'ungracious in victory'..?) i wonder if he was any good at small talk..that t.s...? or if it was all just '..going around the prickly pear..' shall we have 'the wasteland' as a main course..? then prozac all around..eh..? phil(whoar.co.nz) he didn’t hold back..did he..?..that t.s…?

seems to have been quite a miserable bast*rd eh..?

with a reasonably bleak world view…

(y’know..a ‘glass half-empty’ sorta guy..)

(are you trying to cheer us all up russell..?…

or is this just you dancing on brashs’ grave…?..

and being ‘ungracious in victory’..?)

i wonder if he was any good at small talk..that t.s…?

or if it was all just ‘..going around the prickly pear..’

shall we have ‘the wasteland’ as a main course..?

then prozac all around..eh..?

phil(whoar.co.nz)

]]> By: ZippyGonzales http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/11/26/the-hollow-men-ts-eliot/#comment-19669 ZippyGonzales Sun, 26 Nov 2006 04:35:22 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/11/26/the-hollow-men-ts-eliot/#comment-19669 Thank you for posting that up. It's a goodie. Thank you for posting that up. It’s a goodie.

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