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April is the cruellest month, breeding What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante, Unreal City,[8] "Oh keep the Dog far hence, that's friend to men,[12] [1] I am not Russian; I come from Lithuania, I'm German. (Infoplease Editors) [2] Cf. Ezekiel 2:1. [3] Cf. Ecclesiastes 12:5. [4] Fresh blows the wind / To the homeland / My Irish darling / Where do you linger? (Infoplease Editors) V. Tristan und Isolde, i, verses 5-8. [In this opening scene, a ship sails from Ireland to Cornwall carrying Isolde, accompanied by Tristan, to meet her betrothed, King Mark. A young sailor sings a melancholy song about a woman left behind. Later a magic potion is drunk by both Tristan and Isolde and they fall deeply in love. (Infoplease Editors) [5] Od'→Oed' (Editor). [6] Desolate and empty the sea (Infoplease Editors) Id. iii, verse 24. [In act 2 Tristan is mortally wounded and leaves Cornwall for his castle in Brittany, where, in act 3, a musical conversation takes place as he waits for Isolde to come to heal him. A shepherd is asked to look for Isolde's ship and this is his reply (Infoplease Editors)] [7] I am not familiar with the exact constitution of the Tarot pack of cards, from which I have obviously departed to suit my own convenience. The Hanged Man, a member of the traditional pack, fits my purpose in two ways: because he is associated in my mind with the Hanged God of Frazer, and because I associate him with the hooded figure in the passage of the disciples to Emmaus in Part V. The Phoenician Sailor and the Merchant appear later; also the "crowds of people," and Death by Water is executed in Part IV. The Man with Three Staves (an authentic member of the Tarot pack) I associate, quite arbitrarily, with the Fisher King himself. [8] Cf. Baudelaire:
[These are the opening lines of Les Sept Vieillards, roughly:
—Infoplease Editors] [9] Cf. Inferno, iii. 55-7. "si lunga tratta [10] Cf. Inferno, iv. 25-7: "Quivi, secondo che per ascoltare, [11] A phenomenon which I have often noticed. [12] Cf. the Dirge in Webster's White Devil. [13] Hypocrite reader!—my doppelganger—my brother! (Infoplease Editors) V. Baudelaire, Preface to Fleurs du Mal. |
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