Four Quartets

If you, you know, four quartets, the T.S. Eliot poem, there's a line in there, "the children in the apple tree," an image of complete simplicity.

This is T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding from Four Quartets. We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

the great quote for me is always Elliott actually that um we shall not see some exploration then the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time that to me is is what what's going on that's what the classics are about that's what that's what a life of um learning will do Elliott and it is very important figure for me also someone you can't read and understand if you do not understand the gazillion references like who um but you know at Harvard i actually dramatized the four quartets created four different speaking parts within them and then orchestrated it with uh messian i'll leave your messians quartet for the end of time um both were written in 1941 uh messian was ending as a world too was ending bombs were landing in London messian was in a prison of war camp and Elliott was in the blitz and they both wrote these two extraordinarily eternal pieces of art and uh i just i wanted to combine the two which led to a rather long two hours but at the same time we looked everybody stayed awake uh through the whole thing but um beautiful and i began the performance with an air raid siren wow so people knew the context in which these beautiful things were doing that transcendence is what scholarship can really do for you and and that's why i find so much of contemporary uh critical theory discourse so because there is no transcendence there there is no truth there was only power and there was only now an anger it's anger