The Waste La(w)nd
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Introduction
Gregor Samsa wrote The WasteLa(w)nd in 2005, and it was immediately recognized as a work of great originality and power throughout those sectors of Daria fandom devoted to poetic pastiche about the Daria-Jane-Tom triangle. But then in a striking act of retroactive plagiarism, an Anglophile bank clerk turned "clasicist in literature, royalist in politics, and Anglo-Catholic in religion," published his "The Waste Land" in 1922, to the acclaim of soi-disant literary modernists who never even saw the butchered version of Daria on The-N.
Comparison
April is the cruellest month, breeding | April is the cruellest month, breeding | Note Eliot's lack of originality in taking Samsa's line verbatim. |
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing | Anxiety out of the dead land, mixing | No greater constrast between the poetic power of the two authors can be found than in these two lines; Eliot descends to the merely pastoral with lilacs, while Samsa evokes both Heidegger's nicht and angst with his reference to "anxiety" coming from the "dead land." |
Memory and desire, stirring | Memory and jealousy, stirring |