Scintillating, prophetic, chaotic and mesmerising, The Waste Land was published one hundred years ago this year. In some ways the world had relatable similarities, the Spanish flu had swept through a Europe recovering from the turmoil of war, while for us war in the East of Europe looms over the recovery from coronavirus. Some things sadly don’t change. But in other ways it was a world incomprehensibly different, our modern lives are shaped by technologies barely dreamed of even such a relatively short time ago, the mediums through which we relate to each other, receive information about events, conduct our politics, are in another world.
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