QotD / Got the Giggles

[piggymouse]

Википедия рулит рулём.

One evening Eliot read from [The Waste Land] poem to the Royal Family during WWII. Years later, the Queen Mother recalled the evening:

We had this rather lugubrious man in a suit, and he read a poem… I think it was called The Desert. And first the girls [Elizabeth and Margaret] got the giggles and then I did and then even the King.

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P.S. Вид с другой стороны.

Lines for Cuscuscaraway and Mirza Murad Ali Beg

How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot!
With his features of clerical cut,
And his brow so grim
And his mouth so prim
And his conversation, so nicely
Restricted to What Precisely
And If and Perhaps and But.
How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot!
With a bobtail cur
In a coat of fur
And a porpentine cat
And a wopsical hat:
How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot!
(Whether his mouth be open or shut).

Comments

[birdwatcher.livejournal.com]

:):):)

[nine_k]

С другой стороны просто-таки бармаглот.

[faceted-jacinth.livejournal.com]

I present to you, the Giggle Loop.

[piggymouse.livejournal.com]

Очень. Спасибо!