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| memory tables | ||
| inattention | ||
| the calculus was difficult | ||
| we
had the experience |
I compose my memory | |
| She fell off the podium | ||
| (twenty
years largely wasted) |
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| expectation | I miscalculated | |
| we
had the experience |
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| we fell off the bed | I translate the present | |
| (men
and bits of paper) |
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| I was lost in New Hampshire | ||
| disappointment | we
had the experience |
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| the war was a number | ||
| but
missed the meaning |
I select my necessity | |
| distracted
from distraction by distraction |
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| disregard | ||
| as
one becomes older |
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| I was in transit | I edit my certainty | |
| the
past has another pattern |
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| from betrayal to boredom | ||
| distraction | what
you thought you came for |
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| I was unfaithful | ||
| the
past has another pattern |
I annotate my text | |
| (except to expectation) | ||
| (reconsidered
passion) |
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| relation | I studied laws | |
| the
past has another pattern |
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| (ignoring cause and effect) | I reread the future | |
| (old
stones that cannot be deciphered) |
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| I was distracted, I was forgetful | ||
| observation | the
pattern more complicated |
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| I misplaced by longing | ||
| (having
had twenty years) |
I rewrite my desire | |
| I discovered regret | ||
| recognition | ||
| I forget what I wanted | ||
| the
past has another pattern |
I correct my reasons | |
| (somebody to love?) | ||
| and
ceases to be mere sequence |
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| recollection | I forget their names | |
| the
pattern more complicated |
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| (do they think of me?) | I revise my longing | |
| having
had twenty years |
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| time wasn't a dimension | ||
| passion | reconsidered
passion |
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| we were all in relation | ||
| things
that other people have desired |
I compile my excuses | |
| we had all we need | ||
| what
you thought you came for |
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| assurance | like love | |
| a
shell, a husk |
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| time isn't a dimension | I rearrange the past | |
| we
had the experience |
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| we have all we need | ||
| vision | having
had twenty years |
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| the
years of l'entre deux guerres |
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| twenty
years largely wasted |
I transpose my regret | |
| to make mistakes | ||
| voice | but
missed the meaning |
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| Notes: These lines are from the poems of T. S. Eliot: "distracted from distraction by distraction" and "men and bits of paper" (Four Quartets, "Burnt Norton") "the pattern more complicated"; "old stones that cannot be deciphered"; "having had twenty years"; "twenty years largely wasted" and "the years of l’entre deux guerres" (Four Quartets, "East Coker") "as one becomes older"; "the past has another pattern"; "we had the experience"; "but missed the meaning" (Four Quartets, "The Dry Salvages") "what you thought you came for" and "a shell, a husk" (Four Quartets, "Little Gidding") "things that other people have desired" ("Portrait of a Lady") "reconsidered passion" ("Gerontion") |
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