I guess that's what happens when one becomes
something of a snake, and then tries to slough it off.

Cheers,
Peter

CR Mittal wrote:

>
>
> You'll kindly forgive me this incursion but I thought we needed some
> respite from our busy intercourse.
>
> *Chorus in 'Oedipus at Colonus':*
>
>
>
> /Ha! Where is he? Look around! /
> /Every nook and corner scan! /
> /He the all-presumptuous man, /
> /Whither vanished? search the ground! /
> /A wayfarer, I ween, /
> /A wayfarer, no countryman of ours, /
> /That old man must have been; /
> /Never had native dared to tempt the Powers, /
> /Or enter their demesne, /
> /The Maids in awe of whom each mortal cowers, /
> /Whose name no voice betrays nor cry, /
> /And as we pass them with averted eye, /
> /We move hushed lips in reverent piety. /
> /But now some godless man, /
> /'Tis rumored, here abides; /
> /The precincts through I scan, /
> /Yet wot not where he hides, /
> /The wretch profane! /
> /I search and search in vain./
>
> //
>
> Cheers!
>
>
>
> CR
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >From: Carrol Cox <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: "T. S. Eliot Discussion forum." <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: On Character, was Re: "the king my father's death..."
> >Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 17:40:03 -0500
> >
> >"Rickard A. Parker" wrote:
> > >
> > > CR Mittal wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I'm sorry to revive the topic again. But I wished to share a further
> > > > insight.
> > > >
> > > > In TWL, Tiresias lives through the agony of Antigone, musing
> upon the
> > > > king her brother Polynices' wreck as well as upon the king her
> father
> > > > Oedipus's death before him.
> > >
> > > You might say RE-LIVES as he already lived it in "Antigone."
> > >
> >
> >This just makes no sense at all to me. One difference between a poem and
> >a crossword puzzle is that in the latter only getting the right word
> >counts, while in the former "getting the right word" is supposed to have
> >some impact on one's reading of the poem. The intrusion of Antigone into
> >a reading of TWL adds nothing whatever to one's sense of the poem. What
> >difference does this alleged identification make. How in the world can
> >anyone, Sophocles, Eliot, or Eliot's readers make sense of the weird
> >image of Antigone "musing"?
> >
> >Carrol
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