Happy Birthday, T.S. Eliot!

Thomas Stearns Eliot, born 26 September 1888.

Here's what the Poetry Speaks calendar (26 Sept) said about him:

Nobel Prize winner Thomas Stearns Eliot is considered the greatest poet of his generation, and a major influence on future generations... Eliot's poetry can be difficult for readers because of its use of allusions, foreign and historical terms, and classical and complex images... [Eliot] expected the reader to approach poetry the way he would listen to music, understanding on an emotional level if not an intellectual one. Eliot insisted that poetry was supposed to be difficult.

And on 27 September the calendar quoted him;

"Someone said: 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are what we know."

Typically, I don't understand the quote. Yet I love Eliot all the same; I find that, with Eliot's poems, understanding comes with time and a lot of patience and experience. It took me a long while to understand some lines in his poem 'Little Gidding', for instance.


Di Kor shares her birthday with Eliot. Happy belated birthday, Di Kor!

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A thought: while we disparage the traffic police, they breathe the gas emissions from our vehicles and melt under the sweltering sun (or get drenched in rain).

Perhaps we should sing the chorus of Stacie Orrico's song 'Instead';

A new point of view
A walk in your shoes
I wish I could get inside your head
To see what you see
When you look at me
'Cause I could've lived your life instead

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The kingdom of heaven is like a student looking for the perfect ice-blended coffee. When she found one of great value, she went away and gave up all her lunch money for it.


Disclaimer: I am not trying in any way to rewrite the Bible. It's just an analogy that I think suits the picture very much. The 'student' here did not actually pay a cent for it.

"The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.

"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.

--Matthew 13:44-46 (NIV)

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I missed three STPM Trial papers...

Mathematics 1, Biology 1, General Paper 1...

It first appeared on Saturday...

And became worse as the days passed...

Until, on Wednesday, it was thought to be caused by...

THIS:



COMING SOON

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