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Death By Water Ts Eliot. Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell.

The Waste Land - Death By Water & What The Thunder Said
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This section forms a contrast with “the fire sermon”, maybe a contrast between the symbolism of fire and water. The narrator asks his reader to consider phlebas and recall his or her own mortality. The drown phoenician sailor recalls the drowned god of the fertility cults.