Tag: Eliot
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T.S. Eliot on the Mystics as Drugs For Despair
[ad_1] There’s appreciable despair within the air lately. And for apparent causes that don’t want renaming right here. T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) as drawn by Simon Fieldhouse, 2008. Wikimedia Commons. T.S. Eliot provided the mystics as drugs for despair when he stated, “the mystics—or else despair.” Why did he say that? What’s he telling us? Clearly he believed that…