1. „In using the myth, in manipulating a continuous parallel between contemporaneity and antiquity, Mr. Joyce is pursuing a method which others must pursue after him…it is simply a way of controlling, of giving a shape and a significance to the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history. It is a method already adumbrated by Mr. Yeats, and of the need for which I believe Mr. Yeats to have been the first contemporary to be conscious…” T.S. Eliot on Ulysses, Order and Myth

4. Key images and metaphors in The Wasteland
Death
Water
Rock
Shadow
Fire
Blindness

7. „A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse;
from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.” Isaiah 11:1
„Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.” Matthew 8:20
9 So Moses took the staff from the Lord’s presence, just as he commanded him. 10 He and Aaron gathered the assembly together in front of the rock and Moses said to them, “Listen, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?” 11 Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank. Numbers 20:9-10

8. 32 Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone. 33 As it is written:
“See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble
and a rock that makes them fall,
and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame.” Romans 9:32-33

9. 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” John 4:10

11. „The passage is the last line of the introductory poem ‚Au Lecteur’—To the reader—in Baudelaire’s Fleurs du Mal; it may be translated: ‚Hypocrite reader—my likeness—my brother!’ ‚Au Lecteur describes humans as sunk in stupidity, sin, and evil, but the worst in ‚each man’s foul menagerie of sin’ is boredom…” from Norton Anthology, 2298

12. „My parish is bored stuff; no other word for it. Like so many others
„My parish is bored stuff; no other word for it. Like so many others! We can see them being eaten up by boredom, and we can’t do anything about it. Some day perhaps we shall catch it ourselves—become aware of the cancerous growth within us. You can keep going a long time with that in you.” –Georges Bernanos, The Diary of a Country Priest

15. „I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives, Old man with wrinkled female breasts, can see…”

19. „In the Old Indian fable The Three Great Disciplines, the Creator God Prajapati utters the enigmatic syllable DA to three groups. Lesser gods, naturally unruly, interpret it as ‚Control yourselves’ (Damyata”); humans, naturally greedy, as ‚Give’ (Datta); demons, naturally cruel, as ‚Be compassionate’ (Dayadhvam); ‚That very thing is repeated even today by the heavenly voice, in the form of thunder as ‚DA, DA, DA,’ which means ‚Control yourselves,’ ‚Give,’ and ‚Have compassion.’ Therefore one should practice these three things: self-control, giving, and mercy.” from Norton Anthology, 2307