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Quotation from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot

“I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives”

T. S. Eliot (spoken by Tiresias)

The Waste Land, III. The Fire Sermon, l. 218 (Project Gutenberg #1321 (1922 text with notes))

Portrait of T. S. Eliot

The blind seer introduces himself before watching the typist's evening; Eliot's note makes him the unifying consciousness of the poem.

Citation: "I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives" — T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, III. The Fire Sermon, l. 218 (Project Gutenberg #1321 (1922 text with notes)). (id eliot-the-waste-land-q4)

Portrait: Thomas Stearns Eliot by Lady Ottoline Morrell (1934), Lady Ottoline Morrell, Public domain.

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