No i haven't. But i definitely will!

I read Verity first and hated it, but she was so hyped and loved that I thought I would try another book of hers. I figured that the smut and cringey writing and horrible, disgusting characters that I couldnt even like were just in that one book of hers, because she was a romance author attempting a thriller. But yeah... I read It Ends With Us and it was somehow WORSE than Verity. The smut is so stupid and pointless, the characters unbelievably cringey and flat, and her writing truly is 2012 wattpad vibes. I dont understand how people can read her books and feel good about them.

If you read the article you’d see that these were all written prior to his death.

Hated this book. Lol. Reading he was coked out makes so much sense!

Have you ever read the short-story sequel? Two Hearts, I think it's called. Beagle calls it a "coda".

Hiding Houdini tried that but no luck

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And fucking a glove

Yep!!

There’s one he wrote near the end of his life where he realizes how fucked up his thinking was and started to sound very left wing. Then died a couple weeks after

wow I think I want to learn more about his first wife, instead.

Let’s not forget freedom to sniff a book at any time.

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Bless your heart

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1. And yet, they're still alive so they care.
2. If there is no afterlife, then yes, it doesn't matter. If there is an afterlife, I'm fairly certain they'll still care.

> Eliot’s letters to Hale, who for nearly seventeen years was his confidante, his beloved, and his muse, were another matter. They don’t just repeat “gossip and scandal,” they produce it. Scholars have known about this correspondence since Hale donated Eliot’s letters to Princeton, in 1956, but for decades, the trove of documents remained a tantalizing secret—kept sealed, at Eliot’s insistence, until fifty years after both he and Hale had died.

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-secret-history-of-t-s-eliots-muse

It was very much assumed that any reader would be able to recognize and know his references, at the very least they'd have to go hunting for it.

Plus it's like saying "ahhhh ahhh, Tenacious D ripped off Zeppelin in Tribute"....congratulations you missed the joke.

I agree. Reading and writing is significantly harder nowadays because there is no established corpus, hence a lot of literature falls back again to work upon archetypal themes.

But to add to your comment, writing is always based on former writings, and one of the great achievement of modernism is a more conscious awareness of the sources at work in the creative process, seeing the potential this had to exploit it for intertextual purposes.

Elliot greatest achievement is, to put it in your words, creating a conversation, a dialogue, between vastly different sources, to make something wholly new emerge - this is more clear in his latter work, like Four Quartets.

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He was about as racist as a New Englander at the time (very racist).

I heard he repudiated some of his racist beliefs towards the end of his life but I could never find a source for this.

Yup. It becomes a memory of love, he was fond of her still, but he couldn't grow with her.

Hold on, writing erotic letters about farty women

Is it ironic that you say Achilles and Patroclus were affectionate in a platonic way and that it's a modern projection to view their relationship as gay when Plato argued that they were lovers? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposium_(Plato)

Language evolves. As a reader, you know that. To read something does not only mean to sit down and look at the words.

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