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Dead tree

R The dead tree ...

23. Cf. Ecclesiastes XII, v. [Eliot's note] The line in the Bible that Eliot refers to contains the priest's warning against the desolation of old age (NA).

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Ecclesiastes XII, i-x →
link two →Title of “Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar”Title of "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" linguistic analysis The syntactic parallelism of the title is striking, and in that particularly the presence of a colon. The syntactic structures of the title's two constituents are exactly the same -…Click for the full annotation →
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  • The Waste Land - T.S. Eliot
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