I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.


The Letters of T.S. Eliot: 1898-1922 (ed. Harcourt, 1988)


I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures...

I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures...

I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures...

I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures...