> maru dubshinki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11/22/06, Deborah Harrell wrote: > > > maru dubshinki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 11/20/06, Deborah Harrell wrote:
<snippage> > > > >...Also found: _Consider Philebas_ (?sp?)... > > > I wonder if Consider Philebas is where Banks got > > > his Consider Phlebas > > > from? It's an interesting title which didn't > > > really seem to be explained by the book. > > > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consider_Phlebas> > > Hence the "(?sp?)" afterward in my post... > > Borderline Snarkiness Maru > Actually, I was serious there. Reading the Wikipedia > article, I see that it's from The Wasteland. > > Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, > Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell > And the profit and loss. > > A current under sea > Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell > He passed the stages of his age and youth > Entering the whirlpool. > > Gentile or Jew > O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, > Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall > as you. > > But that only pushes the question off further: what > did Eliot mean? What did Banks mean about Eliot's >meaning? Oh dear, yet _more_ literary background required before I can read Banks? Not having read any of the 'Culture' story yet, your quote certainly seems a likely reference. <sigh> I shall have to get cracking, it appears... Debbi Not As Well-read As She Would Like To Think! Maru ____________________________________________________________________________________ Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
