[lbo-talk] List question

[Carrol Cox]

Eliot was 'quoting' Dante: I had not known death had undone so may. The line
is in the Canto which deals with the ante-room of hell, where all those who
were unwilling to act, hence were neither good or bad, but weren't worth
damning.  The line is rather curious: there are more people in this anteroom
(it seems to Dante) than there were in Hell proper, Purgatory, and Heaven
combined. Cf. Eliot's line, "The awful daring of a moment's surrender that
an age of prudence could never retract." 

Carrol

Shane Mage

On Dec 3, 2010, at 9:26 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote:
>
> Was it Yeats or Shakespeare who said, Who knew, death had undone
> so many?

TS Eliot

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