Steve Pollack wrote: > In Prufrock, I believe we see a narrator personally confronting > homosexuality, but scared to death about revealing it in general > society: > > "Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets > And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes > Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows?..." The epigraph also hints at a secret of some sort: "If I thought that my reply would be to someone who would ever return to earth, this flame would remain without further movement; but as no one has ever returned alive from this gulf, if what I hear is true, I can answer you with no fear of infamy." Regards, Rick Parker