TS Eliot and me

I found it!

The Family Reunion, a play by TS Eliot, was published in 1939. I probably read it when I started Honours English in my third year at University, in 1948. My copy cost $2.00. Can you imagine? I found the line instantly and I guess I didn't look it up in 2013 because it is slightly different from my memory's recollection:

"You all look so withered and young"

The idea is right on, though, that people wither and dry up but seldom mature.

Or even ripen.

risks of repetition

"time machine September 15, 2013

 I googled and found an entry by me, which I quoted here, and lost.  That's okay. Look up  "you all look so wrinkled and so young"  if you care to check it  out.... 

That was a direct lift from a Google entry by me. Shock! I turn a corner and meet me. I was checking that line of Eliot’s I quoted and found me quoting it. (I still have to make sure that’s the right wording and source.) I wanted to use it, the line, because of my experience yesterday, attending the Chancellor’s Tea at the University of Manitoba, held during Homecoming and especially honouring five-year alumni. It has been 65 years since I received my first (Dble. Hons.) degree in 1951. I specify Double Honours because it meant an extra year to get it and I don’t know any graduates from that year, as my cohorts left the coop in 1950 - without a convocation because 1950 was the Year of the Flood in Winnipeg before Duff’s Ditch.I won’t go into any more detail here. Do I have to tell you everything?

Where was I?

Looking for that line. Did I check it in 2013? I usually do. I can’t now because I’m not at home. I still have all my Eliot books, nicely marked up, but I can’t get them right now. I’ll check when I return - today, as a matter of fact. but I’ll be tired, and I have an Icelandic class tonight and a spreadsheet lesson tomorrow morning and physio therapy in the afternoon and then there’s laundry, so it might take a while.

It’s a good line, though. Maybe I said it.