Father – A S H Smyth http://www.ashsmyth.com Will write for money Mon, 15 Dec 2014 14:24:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.4 From my father’s marginalia on TS Eliot http://www.ashsmyth.com/a-song-for-simeon/ http://www.ashsmyth.com/a-song-for-simeon/#respond Fri, 26 Sep 2014 10:37:56 +0000 http://www.ashsmyth.com/?p=1523 ‘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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He has written nothing of note.

I have a biro, with a missing top.
I also have not written anything.

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