Sunday, January 10, 2010

Mnemonic Devices: What Eliot Said About Fragments

What are those lines from "The Wasteland" so dear to the heart of every English major? Something like "with these fragments I have shored up my ruins"?

Quoting from memory: a sin and a pleasure.

Driftwood: wood, water, salt; shaped by oceanic forces, marine creatures, and time; collected at either Monastery Beach, Carmel, or Goat Head Beach, Jenner. Octopus: sculpture mix, glazed with transparent brown and celadon; salvaged.