"What the Thunder Said" Annotations
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| + | Eliot said that this was inspired by Hermann Hesse's ''A Look into Chaos: Three Essays'' which discussed the collapse of the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires. Of course, collapse of society and its consecutive spiral into chaos is a major concern of Eliot's. | ||
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