![]() I dislike the paragraph about Hamlet, but it is an early and cherished bit and T.E. Rebuked "if they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead" (Luke 16.19-31).ġ01] sprinkled streets: necessary to keep the dust down.ġ05] a magic lantern: device that throws a magnified image of a picture on glass onto a white screen in a dark room.ġ11] Prince Hamlet: not Shakespeare's noble prince, who resisted the temptation to commit suicide in his "To be or not to be" speech (alluded to at line's end), but instead characters like Tells a parable of how the poor man Lazarus went to heaven, and the rich man Dives to hell, and how Dives begged Abraham to send Lazarus back to warn his five brothers about damnation and was Andrew Marvell's "Let us roll all our strength, and all / Our sweetness, up into one ball" ("To his Coy Mistress").ĩ4] Lazarus: Jesus brought Lazarus, the brother of Mary and Martha, back from the dead by literally entering his tomb and bringing out the recently buried man alive (John 11.1-44). "Portrait of aĦ0] butt-ends: the discarded, unsmoked ends of cigarettes or cigars.Ĩ2] Herod gave John the Baptist's decapitated head to the dancer Salome as a reward (Mark 6.17-29 Matthew 14.3-11).Ĩ3] I am no prophet: Amos said, "I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit" (Amos 7.14), when commanded by King Amaziah of Bethelĩ2] Cf. Count Guido da Montefeltro,Įmbodied in a flame, replies to Dante's question about his identity as one condemned for giving lying advice: "If I believed that my answer would be to someone who would ever return to earth, thisįlame would move no more, but because no one has ever returned alive from this gulf, if what I hear is true, I can reply with no fear of infamy."ġ4] Michaelangelo: Italian painter, poet, and sculptor (1475-1564).Ģ9] works and days: Hesiod's Works and Days, an 8th-century (B.C.) description of rural life.Ĥ2] morning coat: a formal coat with tail.ĥ2] dying fall: love-sick Duke Orsino's opening line in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, "That strain again! It had a dying fall" (I.i.1), referring to a piece of music. We have lingered in the chambers of the seaīy sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brownġ] The epigraph comes from the Inferno of Dante's Divine Comedy (XXVII, 61-66). When the wind blows the water white and black. I have seen them riding seaward on the wavesĬombing the white hair of the waves blown back ![]() I do not think that they will sing to me. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. To lead you to an overwhelming question � Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotelsĪnd sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: ![]() Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, When the evening is spread out against the sky ![]()
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