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| memory tables | ||
| inattention | ||
| the calculus was difficult | ||
| we had the experience | I compose my memory | |
| She fell off the podium | ||
| (twenty years largely wasted) | ||
| expectation | I miscalculated | |
| we had the experience | ||
| we fell off the bed | I translate the present | |
| (men and bits of paper) | ||
| I was lost in New Hampshire | ||
| disappointment | we had the experience | |
| the war was a number | ||
| but missed the meaning | I select my necessity | |
| distracted from distraction by distraction | ||
| disregard | ||
| as one becomes older | ||
| I was in transit | I edit my certainty | |
| the past has another pattern | ||
| from betrayal to boredom | ||
| distraction | what you thought you came for | |
| I was unfaithful | ||
| the past has another pattern | I annotate my text | |
| (except to expectation) | ||
| (reconsidered passion) | ||
| relation | I studied laws | |
| the past has another pattern | ||
| (ignoring cause and effect) | I reread the future | |
| (old stones that cannot be deciphered) | ||
| I was distracted, I was forgetful | ||
| observation | the pattern more complicated | |
| I misplaced by longing | ||
| (having had twenty years) | I rewrite my desire | |
| I discovered regret | ||
| recognition | ||
| I forget what I wanted | ||
| the past has another pattern | I correct my reasons | |
| (somebody to love?) | ||
| and ceases to be mere sequence | ||
| recollection | I forget their names | |
| the pattern more complicated | ||
| (do they think of me?) | I revise my longing | |
| having had twenty years | ||
| time wasn't a dimension | ||
| passion | reconsidered passion | |
| we were all in relation | ||
| things that other people have desired | I compile my excuses | |
| we had all we need | ||
| what you thought you came for | ||
| assurance | like love | |
| a shell, a husk | ||
| time isn't a dimension | I rearrange the past | |
| we had the experience | ||
| we have all we need | ||
| vision | having had twenty years | |
| the years of l'entre deux guerres | ||
| twenty years largely wasted | I transpose my regret | |
| to make mistakes | ||
| voice | but missed the meaning | |
| Notes: These lines are from the poems of T. S. Eliot: "distracted from distraction by distraction" and "men and bits of paper" (Four Quartets, "Burnt Norton") "the pattern more complicated"; "old stones that cannot be deciphered"; "having had twenty years"; "twenty years largely wasted" and "the years of l’entre deux guerres" (Four Quartets, "East Coker") "as one becomes older"; "the past has another pattern"; "we had the experience"; "but missed the meaning" (Four Quartets, "The Dry Salvages") "what you thought you came for" and "a shell, a husk" (Four Quartets, "Little Gidding") "things that other people have desired" ("Portrait of a Lady") "reconsidered passion" ("Gerontion") | ||