T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, with Annotations (and other explanations) by Jonathan Vold

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Lines 312-321: Phlebas the Phoenician...

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312           Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
313           Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
314           And the profit and loss.
315                                  A current under sea
316           Picked his bones in whispers.  As he rose and fell
317           He passed the stages of his age and youth
318           Entering the whirlpool.
319                                  Gentile or Jew
320           O you who turn the wheel and look windward,
321           Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.

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