A sequence of four poems by T. S. Eliot, published between 1936 and 1942, meditating on time, history, language, and transcendence through the lens of four places associated with the elements.
The poem's central proposition — that time present, time past, and time future are all co-present and that moments of stillness break the tyranny of linear time — is the philosophical substrate of Nolan's non-linear cinema.
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