“Here I am, an old man in a dry month,”

Man, do I feel like that line! But honestly, that was pretty much my only connection with this material. Even with one of the greatest openers in literature ("April is the cruelest month") and one of the greatest closing lines ("This is the way the world ends, Not with a bang but a whimper".), I still felt confused reading much of this. And I couldn't read any of the material written in languages other than English, which is my shortcoming, but didn't help with my enjoyment of the selections. Maybe I'll have to come back to this one again someday... ( )