Daily Archives: August 10, 2006

The Waste Land

Posted on August 10, 2006 by divingforpearls

Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante, Had a bad cold, nevertheless Is known to be the wisest woman in Europe, With a wicked pack of cards. Here, said she, Is your card, the drowned Phoenician Sailor, (Those are pearls that were his … Continue reading →

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Trainspotting

Posted on August 10, 2006 by divingforpearls

Renton (Ewan MacGregor) dives down through ‘the worst toilet in Scotland’ to seek out mislaid drugs at the bottom of the ‘sea’, in a fantasy sequence from the film Trainspotting. Trainspotting (1996), d. Danny Boyle

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Lamia

Posted on August 10, 2006 by divingforpearls

… Whether to faint Elysium, or where Down through tress-lifting waves the Nereids fair Wind into Thetis’ bower by many a pearly stair … John Keats, ‘Lamia’ (1820), from Part I

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Richard III

Posted on August 10, 2006 by divingforpearls

Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! What ugly sights of death within mine eyes! Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks, Ten thousand men that fishes gnawed upon, Wedges … Continue reading →

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