Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the mastermind behind the Paris attacks, is like Eliot’s “Macavity: the Mystery Cat.” He has been connected with a string of terrorist incident but is never captured.
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ISIS Mastermind Like Mystery Cat Macavity
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The Complex Inner Life of Teachers
Lily King’s “The English Teacher” is filled with literary lllusions, most of them thematically important.
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Tracking Eliot’s Spiritual Journey for Lent
My Lenten discipline is to better understand T. S. Eliot’s religious poetry.
Learning to Love the Desert
In “Ash Wednesday,” T. S. Eliot turns the despair of “Hollow Men” on its head, seeing it not as the end of hope but as the beginning of faith.
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Advent and Horror at the Void
Donald Hall’s “Advent” captures the darkness of the season, linking death with birth.
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Groucho’s Night with T. S. Eliot
Groucho Marx and T. S. Eliot were both reacting to modernism, but a dinner together did not bring about mutual understanding.
Who Is the Third Always Beside You?
Eliot’s reference to the Road to Emmaus story in “The Wasteland” may be sign of hope rather than despair.
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Here Is No Water but Only Rock
Dry rocks have functioned as images of spiritual desolation throughout the history of Good Friday poetry.
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Hope Out of a Dry Bones Wasteland
In “The Waste Land,” Eliot alludes to Ezekiel’s valley of dry bones multiple times.
