Not only is life sterile and futile, but men have tasted its sterility...
wikipedia - 28 Oct 2020Not only is life sterile and futile, but men have tasted its sterility and futility a thousand times before T. S. Eliot, walking the desert of London, feels profoundly that the desert has always been there. Like Tiresias, he has sat below the wall of Thebes; like Buddha, he has seen the world as an arid conflagration; like the Sibyl, he has known everything and known everything in vain.