 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - Drama - 1971 - 408 pages
...somewhat . . . dramatic, As it was only yesterday that my wife left me. UNIDENTIFIED GUEST: Ah, but we die to each other daily. What we know of other...convention Which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember That at every meeting we are meeting a stranger. EDWARD: So you want me to greet my wife... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - Drama - 1950 - 196 pages
...somewhat . . . dramatic, As it was only yesterday that my wife left me. UNIDENTIFIED GUEST Ah, but we die to each other daily. What we know of other...convention Which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember That at every meeting we are meeting a stranger. EDWARD So you want me to greet my wife... | |
 | Harry Levin - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 566 pages
..."technique as discovery." TS Eliot has surrimed it up, for his own purposes, with his usual succinctness: What we know of other people Is only our memory of...convention Which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember That at every meeting, we are meeting a stranger. Everyone else is a stranger to Marcel.... | |
 | Sy Safransky - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1990 - 174 pages
...amounts to is that I'm scared of being alone in what I feel. — Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook ... we die to each other daily. What we know of other...convention Which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember That at every meeting we are meeting a stranger. — TS Eliot The Cocktail Party Each... | |
 | André Schüller - Literature and morals - 2002 - 372 pages
...themes of interpretation in retrospect and of the temporality of interpretations: [Harcourt Reilly:] we die to each other daily. What we know of other...same Is a useful and convenient social convention In another context, Eliot showed his awareness of the commonplace nature of the metaphor: "Accustomed... | |
 | Chris Jenks - Social Science - 2003 - 298 pages
...Cocktail Party the psychiatrist, who voices the opinions of the author, describes the phenomenon: Ah, but we die to each other daily What we know of other people...convention Which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember That at every meeting we are meeting a stranger. The dissolution of personality, originally... | |
 | Deidre Combs - Family & Relationships - 2011 - 287 pages
...Brooklyn Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are. — Jose Ortega y Gasset We die to each other daily. What we know of other...convenient social convention which must sometimes he hroken. We must also rememher that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger — TS Eliot, "The... | |
 | Dorothy J. Hale - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 841 pages
...Cocktail Party the psychiatrist, who voices the opinions of the author, describes the phenomenon: Ah, but we die to each other daily. What we know of other people GYORGY LUKACS 400 Is only our memory of the moments During which we knew them. And they have changed... | |
 | Paul Hawker - Solitude - 2007 - 226 pages
...the soul is on its knees. VICTOR HUGO Faith begins as an experiment and ends as an experience. ANON What we know of other people Is only our memory of the moments During which we knew them. TS ELIOT It still seemed wrong, so I expanded it and started talking about people I knew. Initially... | |
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Ah, but we die to each other daily What we know of other people Is only our memory of the moments During which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same Is a useful and convenient social convention Which... 