Thank you, Richard. for posting the link to this video.
My remark about "fallen gods" was spontaneous and had a wider range. I've just been reading a history of the Vietnam era containing documentation on President Kennedy. I wasn't living in the U.S. during that time.
Just before I read this thread, I had been reflecting on the kids on our country road who died in that war who would have lived if JFK had pulled out at a point when he had an excellent oppotunity to do so (I'm skipping specifics) but he wanted to wait until he was reelected. Then he was killed and we know the rest.
The other eight teammates of my baseball team either died there or were changed for life.
But yes, when I was young I was a huge admirer of Eliot's poetry and that impression has remained with me strongly all these years.
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