Tuesday, October 18, 2011

News at Eleven: [T.S.] Eliot's ancestor Andrew Eliot had settled

in Massachusetts around 1670, and there the family remained until William Greenleaf Eliot, Eliot's grandfather, moved to St. Louis to establish the first Unitarian church west of the Mississippi. "This scepticism," Eliot went on, "is a product, or a cause, or a concomitant, of Unitarianism." Wherever someone infected with the Eliot Way stepped, "the ground did not simply give way, it flew into particles." Such people "want to do something great," said Eliot, but "they are predestined failures."

from The Nation: Visions and Revisions: On T.S. Eliot

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