There's a reference to the wheel turning just before Becket's
first entrance. Elsewhere there is a reference to ascending
stairs, not unlike the spiral ascent in ASH WEDNESDAY.

I'm almost sure there isn't an Eliot reference to Vico.
I would remember it, even if I didn't remember where I'd
read it.

The absence of any reference to Vico by Eliot is very
strange indeed.

Cheers,
Peter

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Dept. of English
Camosun College
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Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 4:03 AM
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Subject: Vico


Is there a specific allusion or reference to Vico that caught
your eye?

I would have to say the emphasis is more to be found in
these lines:


It is not we alone, it is not the house, it is not the city that is defiled,
But the world that is wholly foul. (page 48 1967 edition of plays)


That dovetails nicely with my experience of life. Nothing
about Vico in the index to Eliot's letters.

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Date:    Thu, 21 Nov 2002 19:42:07 -0800
From:    Peter Montgomery <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Vico

MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL is so full or cyclical
imagery it is hard not to think that a bit of VICO, the
strong philosophical influence on Joyce and Yeats,
has not crept in somehow.

Is anyone aware Eliot's having written anything on Vico,
the Renaissance pilosopher of jistory?

Thanks,
Peter.

Dr. Peter C. Montgomery
Dept. of English
Camosun College
3100 Foul Bay Rd.
Victoria, BC CANADA V8P 5J2
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