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"The Waste Land,"
 
a 1922 poem by T. S. Eliot:

Eliot's note on line 424:
"V. Weston, From Ritual to Romance;
chapter on the Fisher King."

"The Fisher King,"
 
a 1991 film by Terry Gilliam:

"Did you lose your mind
 all of a sudden,
 or was it a slow,
 gradual process?"

"Well, I'm a singer by trade.
Summer stock, nightclub revues,
that sort of thing.
And God, I absolutely lived for it.
I can do Gypsy, every part.
I can do it backwards.

Then one night, in the
middle of singing 'Funny'…
…suddenly it hit me.

What does all this mean?

I mean, that,
plus the fact
that I'd watched all my friends die."