As I reread Chap 16 this time, I am hit with Eliot's too-oft cited line
about ending up where we began knowing the place for the first time...
Well, at least ending up at a drinking party just like the opening drinking
partytime,
with lots of words 'explaining' things this time.
Although the place, Valleta, is very different but as a naval port, not so
much.....?