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Quotation from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
The Waste Land, I. The Burial of the Dead, l. 30 (Project Gutenberg #1321 (1922 text with notes))
A prophetic voice among the stony rubbish, echoing Ezekiel and the burial service, promises a vision of mortality.
Citation: "I will show you fear in a handful of dust." — T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, I. The Burial of the Dead, l. 30 (Project Gutenberg #1321 (1922 text with notes)). (id eliot-the-waste-land-q2)
Portrait: Thomas Stearns Eliot by Lady Ottoline Morrell (1934), Lady Ottoline Morrell, Public domain.
