...the sensual with deprivation Cleansing affection from the temporal. Neither plenitude nor vacancy. Only a flicker Over the strained time-ridden faces...by the cold wind That blows before and after time, Wind in and out of unwholesome lungs Time before and time after. Eructation of unhealthy souls Into...

...nightmare. Here follows a vision of numbed modern man, half dazed by the traffic of the secular world. Only a flicker Over the strained time-ridden faces...by the cold wind That blows before and after time, Wind in and out of unwholesome lungs Time before and time after. Few men, it goes without saying, attain...

...divided aims, its head overtaxed and its palsied heart' and, one may add, its empty soul: The strange time-ridden faces Distracted from distraction by distraction...concentration Men and bits of paper: whirled by the cold wind. He entered upon the scene of English poetry, an American expatriate of erudite mind and disciplined...

...observing his fellow beings, the city men and the suburbanites, the cinema-fans and the newspaper-addicts. Men and bits of paper, whirled by the cold wind That blows before and after time, Wind in and out of unwholesome lungs Time before and time after. Eructation of unhealthy souls Into...

...the temporal. Neither plenitude nor vacancy. Only a flicker Over the strained time-ridden faces i oo Distracted from distraction by distraction Filled...by the cold wind That blows before and after time, Wind in and out of unwholesome lungs Time before and time after. Eructation of unhealthy souls Into...

...futility and ugliness of the time-bound life is unremittingly enforced. Neither plenitude nor vacancy. Only a flicker Over the strained time-ridden faces...concentration Men and bits of paper, whirled by the cold wind ('Burnt Norton' in) Even the more sympathetically observed life of our rustic forefathers is seen as...

...up, starting with the image of exhalation. Eliot returned to it in the third section of Burnt Norton: Men and bits of paper, whirled by the cold wind That blows before and after time, Wind in and out of unwholesome lungs Time before and time after. Eructation of unhealthy souls Into...

..."intellectualistic." Balthasar's primary concern in the article cited is with the latter problem. 234 Filled with fancies and empty of meaning Tumid apathy...by the cold wind That blows before and after time. Wind in and out of unwholesome lungs Time before and time after. ("Burnt Norton," III) Or as, when...

...rotation suggesting permanence Nor darkness to purify the soul Instead this observer discovers only Men and bits of paper, whirled by the cold wind That blows before and after time Eructation of unhealthy souls Into the faded air, the torpid Driven on the wind that sweeps the gloomy...

...Black Death may have been the unrecognized beginning of modern man" (339) . CHAPTER 13 OUR GOD COMPLEX Only a flicker Over the strained time-ridden faces...by the cold wind That blows before and after time, Wind in and out of unwholesome lungs Time before and time after.1 IF THE BLACK DEATH WAS THE GENESIS...