The title is taken from TS Eliot’s The Waste Land - and he took it from The Tempest by Shakespeare …

I remember
Those are pearls that were his eyes.
“Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?”

(From The Waste Land)

#shakespeare #TSEliot #thewasteland #poetry #poem

“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.” #readindies #thewasteland

My final book for #ReadIndies is from a publisher who's a huge favourite of mine, and I did wonder if I would get it finished in time as it's a bit of a chunkster! Fortunately, I embarked on reading it at the start of the half term break and after some struggles (which I'll go into later) I sailed through it; I've had this particular volume for a while, but obviously the timing was right!

https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/02/27/i-will-show-you-fear-in-a-handful-of-dust-readindies-thewasteland/

“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.” #readindies #thewasteland

My final book for #ReadIndies is from a publisher who’s a huge favourite of mine, and I did wonder if I would get it finished in time as it’s a bit of a chunkster! Fortunately, I embark…

Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms his prison - #TSEliot, #TheWasteland

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Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Kalifornia, echt amerikanisch.

#TSEliot #TheWasteLand #literature

"West End Girls" is a song by the English #synthpop duo #PetShopBoys. Written by #NeilTennant and #ChrisLowe, the song was released twice as a single. The lyric, concerned with class and the pressures of inner-city life in #London, is inspired partly by #TSEliot's poem #TheWasteLand (1922). The track was generally well received by contemporary music critics and has been frequently cited as a highlight in the duo's career.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_fcSzKVzxI
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls (Lyrics)

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“Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.”

#TSEliot #TheWasteLand #Poetry #RokerPier #Sunderland #Photography #LandscapePhotography #BeachPhotography #FujiFilm #FujiFilmXT5
Crossing bridges in “The Waste Land” and “Jacob’s Room"

On 16 October 1922, "The Criterion" published T. S. Eliot's poem "The Waste Land", with a procession of the dead in London: "A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, / I had not thought death had undone so many. " Ten days later, Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press published Virginia

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Mad Max dizi oluyor mu? George Miller'ın 'The Wasteland' projesi HBO Max'te! Efsanevi serinin televizyon macerası başlıyor olabilir. Heyecan verici bir gelişme!

🚩 #MadMax #TheWasteland #HBOMax #DiziHaberleri

@mike

correct! ✅

#TheWasteland

"West End Girls" is a song by the English #synthpop duo #PetShopBoys. Written by #NeilTennant and #ChrisLowe, the song was released twice as a single. The song's lyrics are concerned with class and the pressures of inner-city life in #London which were inspired partly by #TSEliot's poem #TheWasteLand. It was generally well received by contemporary music critics and has been frequently cited as a highlight in the duo's career.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_fcSzKVzxI
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls (Lyrics)

YouTube