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Rays vs. Tigers GDT 3: The name is ROBERTO

"The actual Burnt Norton is a manor located in Gloucestershire that Eliot visited with Emily Hale during 1934. The original Norton House was a mansion burned down in 1741 by its owner, Sir William Keyt, who died in the fire." (Wikipedia)

By Bradley Woodrum
Photo credit: USA TODAY Sports

"Burnt Norton"

I

Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden...

-T.S. Eliot

Fausto Carmona is Burnt Norton, you see.

(full poem here)

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