Oh my god, I never thought to look at the Cliff Notes for the Wasteland. They must be spectacular. Can you imagine attempting to parse some kind of narrative coherence out of that?
I looked at Sparks notes actually, because free $$$$$ $$ free$$$$ but thank god i only have Prufrock to do (and a shitload of other shit. sobs. why is this my life)
Wasteland isn’t about narrative coherence; it’s about trying to piece together some sort of beauty and aesthetics from pre-existing canonical shizzle, if ‘tradition and the individual talent’ is to be believed, then he probably was trying to do precisely that while wiggling his way into canon itself.
The Wasteland is one part modernist deconstruction of the Fisher King myth, and two or three parts disastrous marriage with a woman he should never have married and refused to divorce.
Which really probably explains it better than anything.
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