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Quotation from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
“A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.”
The Waste Land, I. The Burial of the Dead, ll. 62-63 (Project Gutenberg #1321 (1922 text with notes))
Morning commuters to the City are seen as Dante's souls in the vestibule of Hell.
Citation: "A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many." — T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, I. The Burial of the Dead, ll. 62-63 (Project Gutenberg #1321 (1922 text with notes)). (id eliot-the-waste-land-q3)
Portrait: Thomas Stearns Eliot by Lady Ottoline Morrell (1934), Lady Ottoline Morrell, Public domain.
