"Death by Water" Annotations
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Go back to [[Shoring Up Fragments Against Our Ruin: Quotations and Allusions]] | Go back to [[Shoring Up Fragments Against Our Ruin: Quotations and Allusions]] | ||
| + | ==Stanza 1== | ||
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| + | ===Lines 312-314=== | ||
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Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, | Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, | ||
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And the profit and loss. | And the profit and loss. | ||
| + | ==Stanza 2== | ||
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| − | + | A current under sea | |
Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell | Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell | ||
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Entering the whirlpool. | Entering the whirlpool. | ||
| + | ==Stanza 3== | ||
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Gentile or Jew | Gentile or Jew | ||
