instead of reading a chapter that follows a quote from the hollow men with anything like suspension of disbelief i'm always torn between 'oh yeah bitch, what's so fucking brilliant then? come on, bring it' and mad literary analysis trying to figure out the supposed parallel. most of the time it's depressingly superficial which just makes me want to beat my head on a wall: like a few lines about hollow and straw, and a scene of angst or philosophizing, the emptiness of life. i mean, they have the concept of deep far enough to like eliot enough to quote it, but not enough to go deeper than 'oh, it's about sadness'?