...spite can hardly exist. CHAPTER SPITE AND PRICE Selfish and Spiteful Behaviour in an Evolutionary Model Go, go, go said the bird; human kind Cannot bear very much reality. TS ELIOT1 DY the time the paper of Chapter 4 came out in 1967 I had been living for a year in a flat in...

...philosophical fictionist writes in the faith of Platonic love. Stage IX: Alcibiades and Novelistic Love Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind Cannot bear very much reality. (Eliot, "Burnt Norton," 118) If Socrates has attained the ultimate reality of Love, it is certainly...

...screen out most things that might otherwise come within our purview. TS Eliot wrote in "Burnt Norton": Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind Cannot bear very much reality.4 Many years ago a very good friend of mine who lived in Bar Harbor, Maine, phoned me one evening...

...posse erträgt nicht zu viel Realität. Posse Go, said the bird, for the leaves werefull ofchildren. Hidden excitedly, containing laughter. Go, go, go,...the bird: human kind cannot bear very much reality. (TSEliot) Die VI Cartesianische Meditation von Fink deutet, als ein Leitfaden, was das 'Transzendentale...

...tìden forekomrner sa overvaeldende, ma fuglen — himlens sendebud — forvise menneskene fra haven: Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind Cannot bear very much reality.31 »Faldet« er da pâ en gang beretningen om menneskehedens farefulde laengsel efter- og...

...Romantic illusion. But I exaggerate my control over reality: Then a cloud passed, and the pool was empty. Go, said the bird, for the leaves were full of children,...the bird: human kind Cannot bear very much reality — even the reality of laughing children. In the third part of "East Coker" "the laughter in the garden"...

...single coin: a cult of male supremacy, an extreme example of a danger faced every day. 7 Winged Feet Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind Cannot bear very much reality. TS ELIOT, "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets What grace, what love and what tate Will these leathers in the shape of dove grant me...

...World-Making. I myself prefer Marcel Proust. As TS Eliot expresses the point in the idiom of our own time, "go, go, go, said the bird; human kind cannot bear very much reality." The detachment from experience that is ingredient to thinking, and by definition to abstract thinking,...

...light, And they werc behind us, reflected in the pool. Then a cloud passed, and the pool was empty. 40 Go, said the bird, for the leaves were full of children,...the bird: human kind Cannot bear very much reality. Time past and time future What might havc been and what has been Point to one end, which is always...

...Salvages 67 Little Gidding 91 In Conclusion 113 Bibliographical Notes 121 Notes 123 About the Author 125 Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind Cannot bear very much reality — BURNT NORTON I 1935 TS Eliot's Four Quartets stand at the pinnacle of twentieth century poetry:...