Sherry Chandler

nor was meant to be. I am Prufrock who has

heard the mermaids singing each to each.

I do not think that they will sing to me.

I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.

So here’s What Book I Am: a plain brown wrapper with a transformative interior.

You’re Prufrock and Other Observations!
by T.S. Eliot
Though you are very short and often overshadowed, your voice is poetic and lyrical. Dark and brooding, you see the world as a hopeless effort of people trying to impress other people. Though you make reference to almost everything, you’ve really heard enough about Michelangelo. You measure out your life with coffee spoons.

Somehow I suppose Elizabeth Bishop is not one of the options and so I am satisfied.

I found this quiz at Lance Mannion’s place, where poetic justice has given him Great Expectations. It’s justice not because Lance has forgotten his roots but because he loves Dickens.

Most grateful I am for the diversion, Lance, after a fraught night. We did have some wind here, and rain blowing white and black, to mark Super Tuesday and Mardi Gras.

Added: Well, actually it all happened on Ash Wednesday, but that’s a different Eliot collection and not a religious holiday in my tradition. So I refer you to Tom Watson for a little bit of that face of Eliot.

Glad to report that all in my household are well and the four cats slept blissfully through it all, though the humans spent some wee hours in the basement.

Hope your household weathered the night well.

You, too, can take the Book Quiz. Just be warned that there may be dire consequences to saying you don’t like Oprah Winfrey.

As for the politicians:

…I have known them all already, known them all:—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life in coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.