{"id":144372,"date":"2026-04-03T15:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144372"},"modified":"2026-04-03T15:48:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:48:46","slug":"ts-eliot-on-hell-and-good-friday-ii-little-gidding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144372","title":{"rendered":"TS Eliot on Hell and Good Friday (II)&#8211;Little Gidding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThe dove descending breaks the air<br>With flame of incandescent terror<br>Of which the tongues declare<br>The one discharge from sin and error.<br>The only hope, or else despair<br>Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre-<br>To be redeemed from fire by fire.<br><br>Who then devised the torment? Love.<br>Love is the unfamiliar Name<br>Behind the hands that wove<br>The intolerable shirt of flame<br>Which human power cannot remove.<br>We only live, only suspire<br>Consumed by either fire or fire.\u201d<br><br><\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Crucifixion, Giovanni da Milano, c. 1360<br><br>St Francis of Assisi appears at the foot of the Cross (Rijksmuseum) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoodFriday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GoodFriday<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MqHbHIh2Jj\">pic.twitter.com\/MqHbHIh2Jj<\/a><\/p>&mdash; John McCafferty (@jdmccafferty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jdmccafferty\/status\/2040094794899169679?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 3, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe dove descending breaks the airWith flame of incandescent terrorOf which the tongues declareThe one discharge from sin and error.The only hope, or else despairLies in the choice of pyre or pyre-To be redeemed from fire by fire. Who then<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144372\">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":[570,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holy-week","category-poetry-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144372","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=144372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144374,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144372\/revisions\/144374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}