[Rolling the bottom of my trousers]: "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock" hits different at 41 than it did at 21 - ThreadSky

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dan-sinnamon.bsky.social • 104 days ago

[Rolling the bottom of my trousers]:

"The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock" hits different at 41 than it did at 21

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I don’t know, Thanksgiving seems a perfect time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; let alone time to murder and create.

Love that poem so much

bookpostusa.bsky.social•104 days ago

https://open.substack.com/pub/books/p/review-1-ange-mlinko-on-an-eliot?r=22y&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

dan-sinnamon.bsky.social•104 days ago

riding the same wavelength

j-alfred-prufrock.bsky.social•104 days ago

Someone call?

maxou-t.bsky.social•104 days ago

You got a new follower bc that's one of my favorites poems😍

amyclukey.bsky.social•104 days ago

I have measured out my life with conference badges.

wmschumacher.bsky.social•104 days ago

That footman’s snicker does sting, though…

michaeldocherty.bsky.social•104 days ago

Eat the peach, Dan

monalisavitti.bsky.social•104 days ago

[talking of michelangelo]: i have to agree

sunraa.bsky.social•104 days ago

I have heard the mermaids singing

sunraa.bsky.social•104 days ago

Hits really fucking hard at 68

carallewis.bsky.social•104 days ago

Truth

bob1958.bsky.social•104 days ago

I think I was 21 or so when I first read it. Even better? at 65.

ghostingdani.bsky.social•104 days ago

My students and I basically just argued about how old he is the entire class period.

richardhcooper.bsky.social•104 days ago

I’d say there’s just about time yet for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions, before the taking of a toast and tea.

richardhcooper.bsky.social•104 days ago

Clear up the novels, and the teacups, and the skirts that trail along the floor afterwards, though.

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