HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME

I loved the depth of the repetition in part 2, "A Game of Chess". While reading through it a second time, I felt myself becoming more and more engrossed in the middle section, right around the "those are pearls that were his eyes" line. And even though Eliot's notes were included with the poem, I didn't find it necessary to really worry about reading through all of them in order to find out what his sources of reference were. They are nice to have, of course, but I think the ambiguity of not knowing where the original 'ideas' came from is pretty compelling. I'm not sure why the repetition of HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME sticks with me so much... but then again, maybe I can find out why. I like the compulsion of repetition, and given the context of this section of the piece and how it ends (with Ophelia's repetition, no doubt) is really awesome in the sense that it makes me feel a sense of urgency and a rather uncanny feeling that something morbid is about to happen... or could happen. I almost wanted it to. I tend to think that if "A Game of Chess" were to be redistributed (and maybe it has been) outside of the whole of The Wasteland, it would make a perfect standalone work... but as it is included with all of the other sections I think it makes for a very awesome type of textual collage. I also particularly admired the way that Eliot pulled from so many varied classic sources to make a larger work of art that is obscure and so long-lasting. I think it's a good thing to have his 'sources' included, but the ambiguity of not knowing where everything came from at first and just guessing at some of the things I recognized from Shakespeare was intriguing.