‘What the devil does this mean?’ – TS Eliot, note in Edmund Husserl’s Logische Untersuchungen
Pagan spring about to be replaced
cf. feathers in Gerontion
This a prayer
– the old securities will collapse.
No guarantee for children
on acc. of his piety.
Period between death and rebirth.
Prefiguring of passion + cross.
Calvary.
Eliot mixture.
Agony + ecstasy for those who follow Christ.
Desire to be spared the agony + ecstasy.
Luke.
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