THE WASTE LAND
TS Eliot
10.5 x 14.8 cm
43 pages
Singer sewn binding
Edition of 200
Each cover is unique
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"On Margate Sands. I can connect nothing with nothing."
TS Eliot went to Margate to have a quick nervous breakdown by the sea and accidentally wrote the most famous poem of the twentieth century.
It has everything: miserable dates, dead-end jobs, pub landlords shouting last orders, tarot cards, bad sex, and a complete collapse of Western civilization. He threw in five languages, several dead gods, and some sacred Sanskrit just to make sure no one could understand it.
Absolute laugh a minute.
"A hundred years on, anxieties about social change, the sense of a spiritless world, the lament for the loss of tradition, the entrenchment of cynicism and moral numbness, have all become features of political life. The Waste Land still speaks to us..." - Kenan Malik (Political commentator and Writer)
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Specifications:
a. Cover: Designed with Patternodes. Seawhite of Brighton 290gsm card. Earth brown. Acid free and FSC certified.
b. Flysheet: Designed with Affinity. Seawhite of Brighton 135gsm paper. Vermillion. Acid free and FSC certified.
c. Textblock: Designed with Affinity. Seawhite of Brighton 100gsm all-media cartridge paper. Acid free and FSC certified.
d. Thread: Gutermann Extra Strong Thread. White. 100% polyester.
e. Printed with Epson EcoTank ET-8550.
f. Cut with Dhale 842 stack cutter.
g. Stuck with Yamato Nori starch paste. 100% tapioca starch and water. Acid free and non-toxic.
h. Bound with Singer 4411 heavy duty sewing machine.