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Tallis in Wonderland
On Waiting
Raymond Tallis thinks about queuing and milling about.
“They also serve who only stand and wait.”
John Milton, On His Blindness
The eponymous hero of T.S. Eliot’s anti-heroic poem Sweeney Agonistes has this to say about human life:
Birth, copulation, and death.
That’s all the facts when you come to brass tacks:
Birth, copulation, and death.
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