T.S.Eliot's wasted wit

Roy Harris must try to be less flat-footed about T. S. Eliot (바카라 사이트 추천S, October 13). The lines about St Mary Woolnoth keeping 바카라사이트 hours "With a dead sound on 바카라사이트 final stroke of nine" offer a wry comment on 바카라사이트 rigours of office hours in 바카라사이트 city of London.

Eliot's footnote "A phenomenon which I have often noticed" is thus far from being "portentously unexciting". The bleak irony of its glance at personal experience attempts, suddenly and savagely, to probe a particular dimension of 바카라사이트 poem's sense of "waste".

We used to call this sort of thing "wit".

Terence Hawkes Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory University of Wales College of Cardiff