P's Keep Cool but Care, influenced by?

[Mark Kohut]

'Teach me to care and not to care/teach me to sit still".

http://www.msgr.ca/msgr-7/ash_wednesday_t_s_eliot.htm

My self-blinkered self...I used to recite these lines back in my
youth,  yet, I never put them together with Pynchon's famous
line which I also used to quote. (And I knew Eliot was some kind of
influence but
not until recently how much)

Talk about an unknitted-together bi-cameral mind, here's looking at you
with Iceland Spar hemispheres.
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