The White Road – Haunted in Thin Air

Who is the third who walks ALWAYS beside you? The White Road, a tale of terror and suspense by South African Sarah Lotz is inspired in great part by this line in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. Eliot in turn was inspired by the account of Ernest Shackleton who during his traumatic journey through an barren […]

Street Seens: T.S. Eliot was Wrong!

April is not “the cruelest month.”  There, I said it.  Although saying that amounts to something between ingratitude and intellectual patricide for one who used the American-born master as the subject for papers that helped win both undergraduate and graduate degrees.  It just needs saying, as I review the events of the month just ended. […]