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From: Jennifer Formichelli Thank you. I take the epithet 'picky' as a compliment. =========================================== Then I wish you well with it. I hope you don't find it too limiting in seeing analogies and making connections. I shall remember your rules of pickiness in case another occasion for discussion arises. As we each go on with our own rules OF which others are unaware, I suspect we shall be like the victims of the tower of Babel. Either that, or we shall be so busy sorting out rules, we shan't have other things to say. I in the mean time will continue to see Eliot's use of the Erinyes as a model for people having to face the consequences of their actions in all his plays. It is another example of the use of the mythic method as Joyce used in Ulysses. Had he been pickily faithful to the original myth, I wonder where he would have gotten. As to whether epigraphs are in a work or not, seems to me that anything that comes under the title is IN the poem. Where would proof rock, er "Prufrock" be without the Danté epigraph? They are joined at the hip. To use the concept from "Tradition and the Individuqal Talon", they modify each other. Sweeney Ag. has changed the meaning of the original epigraphs as much as have the epigraphs inserted themselves INTO the poem -- like a virus even. Cheers, Peter