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=== Other works by Eliot provide examples of: === |
=== Other works by Eliot provide examples of: === |
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* [[Dear Negative Reader]]: ''The Triumph of Bullshit''. Never published in his lifetime, but quite stunning to read. "For Christ's sake, stick it up your ass." |
* [[Dear Negative Reader]]: ''The Triumph of Bullshit''. Never published in his lifetime, but quite stunning to read. "For Christ's sake, stick it up your ass." |
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* [[Light Is Good]] |
* [[Light Is Good]] |
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* [[Lying Creator]]: Admitted that the notes attached to ''The Waste Land'' were there to fill space, and that at least some of them were intentionally misleading. |
* [[Lying Creator]]: Admitted that the notes attached to ''The Waste Land'' were there to fill space, and that at least some of them were intentionally misleading. |
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* [[Mind Screw]] |
* [[Mind Screw]] |
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* [[Self-Deprecation]]: [http://www.jjaro.net/eliot/five-finger-exercises.html "How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot!"] |
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* [[Sexless Marriage]]: Eliot's. |
* [[Sexless Marriage]]: Eliot's. |
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* [[Shout Out]]: Eliot was a master of allusion, weaving it throughout his works. |
* [[Shout Out]]: Eliot was a master of allusion, weaving it throughout his works. |
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T. S. Eliot was a poet, raised in America but who lived his adult life in England. The Waste Land is his most famous poem.
One of his lighter works, Old Possums Book of Practical Cats, inspired the musical Cats.
Works by Eliot with their own trope pages include:
Other works by Eliot provide examples of:
- Dances and Balls
- Dear Negative Reader: The Triumph of Bullshit. Never published in his lifetime, but quite stunning to read. "For Christ's sake, stick it up your ass."
- Light Is Good
- Literary Allusion Title: Aside from inspiring many of these, Portrait of a Lady is a reference to a novel by Henry James.
- Lying Creator: Admitted that the notes attached to The Waste Land were there to fill space, and that at least some of them were intentionally misleading.
- Mind Screw
- Self-Deprecation: "How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot!"
- Sexless Marriage: Eliot's.
- Shout Out: Eliot was a master of allusion, weaving it throughout his works.
- Sirens Are Mermaids
- Sophisticated As Hell: The aforementioned The Triumph of Bullshit.
- Stepford Smiler: J Alfred Prufrock.