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Which lines in this excerpt from t. s. eliot's "the love song of j. alfred prufrock" contain a biblical allusion? i should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas. and the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully! smoothed by long fingers, asleep … tired … or it malingers, stretched on the floor, here beside you and me. should i, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? but though i have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, a)[though i have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, i am no prophet]—and here’s no great matter; i have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and would it have been worth it, after all, after the cups, the marmalade, the tea, among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me, would it have been worth while, b)[to have bitten off the matter with a smile, to have squeezed the universe into a ball] to roll it toward some overwhelming question, c)[to say: “i am lazarus, come from the dead], come back to tell you all, i shall tell you all”— d)[if one, settling a pillow by her head, should say: “that is not what i meant at all; that is not it, at all.”]

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