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Quotation from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
“Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.”
The Waste Land, IV. Death by Water, l. 321 (Project Gutenberg #1321 (1922 text with notes))
The short elegy ends by turning the drowned sailor into a warning to every reader at the wheel.
Citation: "Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you." — T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, IV. Death by Water, l. 321 (Project Gutenberg #1321 (1922 text with notes)). (id eliot-the-waste-land-q5)
Portrait: Thomas Stearns Eliot by Lady Ottoline Morrell (1934), Lady Ottoline Morrell, Public domain.
