Our group meetings wisely took place at the beginning rather than the end of class(maybe this is just what we should do from now on); the Cokers are on their way to memorizing their divided up sections of the section--I am section 7, right near the end. Therefore I am not panicked about where all my lines are. And on the 20th of February we shall give a presentation of the content of "East Coker", much of which is addressed to the understood "they". Who are "they". It is very likely that "they" refer to the spirits of the dead(coincidence linking this to the Joyce story?), specifically from ancient times; the world in which they lived is now completely carpeted by modernity, but it may not be lost to you, if you listen close enough.

We listened to Van Morrison's rendition of the song "Piper at the Gates of Dawn", which was fun, even if the speakers were muddy.

I liked Abby's story of her "food epiphany" with eating the oxtail soup at the Cul-de-sac restaurant in Rome. Relates in a way to the petite madeline in Proust, and the food in Babette's Feast and Like Water for Chocolate.

This is one of the things that Eliot, in section three of the Four Quartets, categorizes as moments of happiness: frution, fulfillment, affection and a good dinner. But he also asserts that the epiphanic moment goes beyond "happiness" , touching upon notions of the Sublime, which is simultaneously beautiful and terrible, wonderful and painful.

And there is Taylor's defintion of epiphany--knowing what must be done, which ties into two words which will be important: right action.