Reporter: Mr Eliot, for which of your works were you awarded the Nobel Prize?
Eliot: I assume it was for the entire corpus.
Reporter: When did you publish that?
Priceless.
(Via the wonderful Ackroyd biography.)
T.S. Eliot Wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
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Saw the recent BBC documentary on Eliot featuring his scrap books for the first time. Fascinating.
I missed that, dammit. Heard it was good.