sorry to drag baleful old Eliot into the light again ... Does anyone know
anything about "the grass is singing" as a phrase - from around the ruined
chapel in the last section of the Waste land?
i know that Doris Lessing's debut novel takes it as a title, that African
grass beneath the enormous sky,
but did Eliot actually invent this phrase all by himself? The closest thing
in the Bible is Isiah:"for the people is grass"
what does it make anyone think of?
Edmund
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