The audience is the speaker. The audience is the actor… Eliot ex… — “The Lewis Vortex” (1971), p 5 | The MMM

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The audience is the speaker. The audience is the actor… Eliot explains this matter apropos Tiresias in his “notes” to the Waste Land.

“The Lewis Vortex” (1971), p 5

Quote #557

Year: 1971

Chapter: Audience, Public, Mass

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