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Apparently, the T.S. Eliot family home is for sale in St. Louis.

9 Responses to “Eliot Home for Sale”

1. Andrew T. on 24 Jul 2008 at 1:40 am #

   I haven’t seen you here in a while, Bede.

   So, are you a big Eliot buff? I admit to not knowing very much about him.

2. Bede on 24 Jul 2008 at 1:43 am #

   The Southerners on here should take comfort in the fact that, in his literary criticism, Eliot, although originally from New England, considered Southern literature superior to Northern, as did many of New Criticism contemporaries.

3. Andrew T. on 24 Jul 2008 at 1:54 am #

   What are the great works of Southern literature?

   I have actually taken on a recent liking to some of the literature of the American Wild West.

4. Filmer on 24 Jul 2008 at 12:17 pm #

   This would be a great place to make the headquarters of a paleo think tank, institute, etc. Paleos need a rich benefactor.

5. St. Louis CofCC Blogmeister on 24 Jul 2008 at 3:59 pm #

   Sorry, that neighborhood is on the edge between white liberal yuppiedom and black ghetto. I wouldn’t want to do anything conservative in that area, notwithstanding the general demographic trend.

   What gets me is that T.S. Eliot is probably among the very small handful of famous authors and poets with St. Louis lineage, and his grandfather founded Washington University. Yet, there wasn’t a peep about this on the local news. I had to find out about this from this blog right here, which is based in Georgia.

   Ironically, the school which his grandfather founded isn’t too big on the grandson’s literature, because it contains too many right-wing allusions.

6. Weaver on 24 Jul 2008 at 9:33 pm #

   It looks like there’s a guard gate a block down. Perhaps a similar gate could be put on the house’s street too.

   I was thinking it must be in a bad location to sell for so little. A house like that in a good neighborhood would be worth twice as much.

   It’s amazing how the best neighborhoods can fall so easily… Once the, ah, wrong crowd takes stewardship, they fall into disrepair quickly.

7. Andrew T. on 24 Jul 2008 at 10:42 pm #

   Well, really, the city of St. Louis is just one bad neighborhood writ large.

8. roho on 25 Jul 2008 at 12:57 am #

   How sad. The fact that U.S. Grant died broke in NYNY only makes it bearable.(Seen his grave lately?) The “Pride” of the Army of Lincoln?

9. RedPhillips on 25 Jul 2008 at 1:00 pm #

   For the record, I am from Georgia, but this blog is not based in Georgia. I am the only blogger on here who lives in Georgia.

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