| Author Quoted | T.S. Eliot |
| Title Quoted | Waste Land |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1939/11/08 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1922I |
| Quotation | Reading my diary for 1931, which I ought to destroy, I am surprised at my childish paganism. Announcing what I wanted: to be drunk. To the end of useful notes for novel: in my 16 year old unquietness, what things stirred me, and seemed to be connected with desires. "Autumn Crocus." Omelet and rhine wine at the Trocadero. Edna Best, Madeleine Carroll, etc. Picture of Clara Bow on a beach in Sporting and Dramatic. Cocktail Bar at the Mayfair. Side cars. Grogs in Strasbourg. Maison Olivier, Strasbourg. Anita Page in War Nurse. "Echoes of the Jungle," by Duke Ellington. "Georgia on my Mind," by McKinney's Cotton Pickers. T. S. Eliot's "Waste Land." Oxford. Cambridge. Ezra Pound's "Lustra." |
| Quotation Source | Run to the mountain: The Story of a Vocation. The journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 1, 1939-1941.; Edited by Patrick Hart, O.C.S.O. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1995, p. 86 |
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