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>Based on what someone wrote earlier... wouldn't the notes to The Wasteland >also be a paratext? They don't seem to explain anything, though they do >suggest, among other things, that the lovemaking between the typist and >the young man carbuncular would have been more meaningful if only they had >read Goldsmith. On a somewhat other subject, perhaps, how many have read what we might call the illustrated Waste Land: Martin Rowson's amazing book-length cartoon _The Waste Land_ (Penguin Books 1990/Harper & Row 1990), which includes the Notes, in the very comic/parodic mode of the original. Noir Eliot. It works! And does anyone know of his earlier books, _Scenes from the Lives of the Great Socialists_, or _Lower than Vermin: An Anatomy of Thatcher's Britain_? I've never seen them here, but assume they were once available in the UK. They definitely sound interesting to me... Douglas Barbour Department of English University of Alberta Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5 (h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521 http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm But the dead are wholehearted about being dead, no half measures no shilly-shallying: they're committed, dedicated to purposelessness. Al Purdy %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%