LaGrange (and anybody else 🙂
Haha- And who would have thought that Prufrock would produce any laughs? Hope you didn't cut yourself with the peach! Very daring of you to eat a peach in the first place...
Here's another image from Prufrock that has a lot of potential for wit.
"I grow old...I grow old;
I shall wear the bottom of my trousers rolled."
Now that I've lost weight, I wear the top of my jeans rolled over so that they stay up! HAha.
...Ahh, this thread reminds me of when one of my fellow teachers and I would joke and discuss Eliot all day between classes when he taught Prufrock. He was in the adjoining classroom so we heard each other teaching...Boy, some days I really, really miss it.
LaGrange, thanks for keeping it going!
WARNING: This Teacher General has determined that reading T. S. Eliot is hazardous to your happiness.
Have a great day, everybody! Thanks for the laughs!
Anne. your peach comments are just ... peachy. I once watched a TV episode in which a student actually sent a note to a prof using that Prufrock quote.
I wore the bottoms of my jeans rolled up for a long time, because they were too long, until I finally bought some with the right length. That quote is ... ageless.
Thank you to my great humanities professor, for highlighting the image "I have measured out my life in coffee spoons". Since then, I've always tried to avoid that kind feeling, which is why humor is so important. And I do happily brew and drink coffee.
There is a movie "Tom and Viv" about Eliot and his wife. It's interesting but not at all good for laughs.
Anne, the English teacher in you has revealed a fount of puns, double meanings. and humor. These are great groans and ha ha's,