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T.S. Eliot

april is the cruellest month, breeding.

April 4, 2013 by L.S. Johnson

have i mentioned my secret, shamefaced love for the work of thomas stearns eliot?

. . .

i did in fact write 1 in march, only i now have to fill in a certain amount of research to complete it . . . namely, trudging through julie, ou la nouvelle héloïse, and perhaps that restless genius bio as well.  thus the forthcoming preponderance of rousseau quotes over at the tumblr site.

i have no secret, shamefaced love for jean-jacques, but he is a character in this piece, so.  i would not want to do him a disservice with shoddy research.

i have now cleaned up the first 6 chapters of the wolves, as well as the new prologue . . . which is not as much of a milestone as it sounds, because they were pretty much salvageable with some tweaks.  now the real hacking starts.

i would love very much to work these in, but i suspect they are later than my time period—that is, i am pretty sure that i read somewhere that they are more of a 1760s thing? only at this point all my research is blurring together.  but the idea is pretty cool:

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floating baths.  you could go in and have a wash.  an interesting development considering how water-phobic the general culture was.  all those movies, where they show folks bathing while dressed? true.

Filed Under: Process, Reading, Visuals Tagged With: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Julie, La Nouvelle Héloïse, Paris, T.S. Eliot, The Hounds

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