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Duncan Trussell Family Hour

591: Conner Habib

Duncan Trussell Family Hour

Duncan Trussell Family Hour

Comedy Interviews, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Comedy

4.811K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2023

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Conner Habib, it is fire, it is beauty, it is brilliance, re-joins the DTFH!

DUBLIN and EVERYWHERE ELSE! Be sure to join Conner for his LIVE and ONLINE workshop on Saturday, December 2! It's called Occult Philosophies: An Introduction to Rudolf Stener & the Western Esoteric Tradition. Tickets available right here.

Conner is also an author and has his own podcast! Read his book, Hawk Mountain, available everywhere you get your books, and check out his podcast, Against Everyone with Conner Habib!

Original music by Aaron Michael Goldberg.

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Yes, playwright, literary critic, and editor.

0:13.0

He is considered to be one of the 20th century's greatest poets,

0:16.0

as well as a central figure in English language modernist poetry.

0:20.0

His trials in language, writing style, and verse structure

0:24.4

reinvigorated English poetry.

0:27.0

He is also noted for his critical essays, which often re-evaluated long-held

0:32.2

cultural beliefs. But last week, after opening a trunk

0:36.5

purchased at an estate sale, Shanda Klern, a London retiree, made a discovery that changes everything we know about

0:44.3

Elliot. At first I thought the trunk was just filled with lady slippers but then I

0:48.9

realized that inside each slipper was a handwritten poem, each signed by T.S. Elliot.

0:56.2

The poems were sent to Dr. Amanda Humpme of the Royal Literary Society for analysis and verification.

1:02.4

When I saw these poems for the first time I nearly wept.

1:05.0

It was as though I were alone in the room with Elliot.

1:07.0

There on the paper, dotted by dried yellow dots of Elliot's tea,

1:11.0

were undiscovered writings by one of the greatest poets in modern history.

1:16.0

These poems are classic Elliot. Bundled within them are all of Elliot's desires and longings.

1:22.1

Take panty Line for example.

1:24.0

A line that stretches cross a yard thin tenuous febrel yet firm, a silken tendon of drying,

1:30.0

and like flags the panties dangle there free flying, drying but still moist in the And like

1:33.4

Flags, flying, drying but still moist in the morning air and like spider-blown for a moment.

1:37.4

From his shimmering web left to float in that place between earth and sky.

1:41.4

I crawl quietly through the yard, returning to the panty line.

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