I heard one time that Eliot gave a public reading of The Wasteland. When he finished, he received questions. Someone asked what the poem meant, so he read it again.
They are reading from Beautiful Ruins, by Jess Walters. They are near the end of chapter 1, so it is not too unusual that LuAnn hadn’t yet noticed this behavior. Unless it’s not their first book together.
I heard one time that Eliot gave a public reading of The Wasteland. When he finished, he received questions. Someone asked what the poem meant, so he read it again.