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Eliot wins the ellipses game…

January 22, 2014 By Jordan

Everything in “Prufrock” is elliptical: those meandering streets, the foglike cat (fog and cats: name me two things more evasive), the hundred revisions, the perfume-inspired digressions…

…from The 5 Best Punctuation Marks in Literature at Vulture

So yes, I’m a big flaming nerd. But really, all I’m taking from this article is a certainty that I’ll be stealing “streets that follow like a tedious argument” alongside the other thousand lines I’ve stolen from Prufrock.

Foglike cat. Sheesh. Second best line about cats I’ve read all day.

Filed Under: Things I wish I'd written Tagged With: Prufrock, T.S. Eliot