The proposition, I suppose, Peter had in mind vis-a-vis the quotation from 'The Rock':

O perpetual revolution of configured stars,
O perpetual recurrence of determined seasons,
O world of spring and autumn, birth and dying

The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word. 

CR

From: Carrol Cox <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: TS Eliot: "Light / Light"

// After forty-odd years of teaching, I find myself tending to agree with Eliot. //
 Still, I can't help wondering what his response to the deduction of the big bang would have been. P.

With what are you agreeing. I couldn't extract a proposition from CR's
scribblings.

Carrol