Just finished the card back for my T.S. Elliot Waste Land and Other Poems tribute tarot deck.

"By this, and this only, we have existed
Which is not to be found in our obituaries
Or in memories draped by the beneficent spider"

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"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." - T. S. Elliot #MondayMotivation #QuoteOfTheDay #ContinuousImprovement #Coaching #LyonStrategic #TSElliot

I've read "The Hollow Men" by T.S. Elliot through twice now. The first time I was too busy saying "wow" at the way the imagery conjured up the end of the universe, "not with a bank, but a whimper."

The second reading, I noticed a subheading "Penny for the Old Guy" and the scarecrow imagery, reminding me (as was probably intentional) of Guy Fawkes' Night celebrations. And then it slid back into the End of The Universe.

Maybe, third reading through, I'll see what Elliot intended. But maybe it'll still be the universe...

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Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,
Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum—
Names that never belong to more than one cat.
But above and beyond there’s still one name left over,
And that is the name that you never will guess;
The name that no human research can discover—
But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
His ineffable effable
Effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular name.

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Source:

https://poets.org/poem/naming-cats

From Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Copyright © 1939 by T. S. Eliot, renewed © 1967 by Esme Valerie Eliot

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