The ‘Mystery Cat’ immune to ‘every human law’: Imran leaving after his court appearance on Friday. The court shielded the former Pakistan PM from arrest until at least next week, amid a roiling political crisis that has pitted the celebrity politician against the current government and spilled over into street protests. — AP
AT times like this, when faith in everything sane and normal and conventional is upturned by events, one is forced to disbelieve prose and escape into the reassurance of poetry.
TS Eliot (1888-1965) was an American-English poet whose prose read like poetry and whose poetry read like prose. Whoever has read both can never forget either. His play Murder in the Cathedral (1935) is a morality play, an allegory in which the central figure is the Catholic martyr Thomas Becket.
