[Alternative Muses] Coming and Going: T.S. Eliot/Edgar Degas Mashup

“Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.”-T.S. Eliot (born on 9/26/1888)

The Millinery Shop, Edgar Degas, 1879/86. Art Institute of Chicago.

Edgar Degas (died on 9/27/1917): The Millinery Shop, 1879/86. Art Institute of Chicago.

A Selection of Quotes from Frequently Banned Books, Part Two

  • “A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.”-Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D.H. Lawrence
  • “I have found God, but he is insufficient.”-Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
  • “Confusion hath fuck his masterpiece.”-Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs