"And the light shone in darkness and
Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled
About the centre of the silent Word."
— T. S. Eliot, "Ash Wednesday"
This suggested a search for commentary on
Conrad Aiken's phrase "where whirled and well."
Of the nine (Google) search results, one is not from
my own journal entries—
[PDF] TIME! TIME! TIME!
https://circle.ubc.ca/bitstream/id/131009/UBC_1968_A8%20C33.pdf
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by G Cameron – 1968 – Related articles
well where whirled and well where whirled and well—
-3. The stress on words such as "wing" is expanded for use
in Aiken's musical paragraph as follows: …