{"id":144360,"date":"2026-04-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144360"},"modified":"2026-04-03T09:49:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:49:23","slug":"ts-eliot-on-hell-and-good-friday-i-the-cocktail-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144360","title":{"rendered":"TS Eliot on Hell and Good Friday (I)-The Cocktail Party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There was a door<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I could not open it. I could not touch the handle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why could I not walk out of my prison?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is hell? Hell is oneself,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hell is alone, the other figures in it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;Edward in The Cocktail Party, <strong>Act One. Scene 3<\/strong><\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Diego Vel\u00e1squez (Spanish painter, 1599-1660): \u201cChrist Crucified\u201d, 1622. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1ghgp2tC4L\">pic.twitter.com\/1ghgp2tC4L<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Maria Helena (@mhcoutinho_48) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mhcoutinho_48\/status\/1248352883965296646?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a door And I could not open it. I could not touch the handle. Why could I not walk out of my prison? What is hell? Hell is oneself, Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144360\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178,570,113,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eschatology","category-holy-week","category-poetry-literature","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144362,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144360\/revisions\/144362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}