s 47). The image of the card is an allusion, that of a Phoenician Sailor critics take to be Phlebas, (Scott, p. 58). Scott (p. 58) argues that ôPhlebas, Eliot says, is your cardùyou who are stuck in the waste land, a Dark Night of the Soul in which you must æFear Death by water,Æ a kind of metaphysical engulfment.ö
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