In addition to his gift of prophecy, he is known for his sexual transformation from man to woman (as a punishment from Hera, the queen of the Greek gods). I Tiresias Tiresias In Greek mythology, Tiresias is a blind seer from Thebes. Cities are built out of the ruins of previous cities, as The Waste Land is built out of the remains of older poems.”, where the sun beats, Hugh Kenner, one of the great scholars of Modernism, explained this element well, arguing how the line evokes: “the manner in which Shakespeare, Homer, and the drawings of Michelangelo, Raphael, and the Magdalenian draughtsmen coexist in the contemporary cultivated consciousness: fragments, familiar quotations: poluphloisboio thalasse, to be or not to be, undo this button, one touch of nature, etc. Signed by Author(s).A heap of broken images A heap of broken images Eliot’s endnotes for the poem connect the following line to Ecclesiastes 12:5: “Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.” But it also resembles Ezekiel 6:4: “And your images shall be broken.” Though the “heap of broken images” is one of many depictions of post-war decay in the poem, it can also be taken more generally as a metaphor for how present consciousness consumes past culture.

However, it is only a question of time before a TV-adaptation will be done since the Culture novels have broad appeal.

A recent Amazon attempt of a TV adaptation was cancelled in 2020, probably due to the pandemic. Musk even named a number of the landing platforms for the Falcon boosters after Banks spaceships ( Just Read the Insctructions Of Course I Still Love You ). It is noteworthy that Elon Musk of Space-X and Jeff Bezos of Blue Origin are fans of Iain Banks sci-fi stories. Banks sci-fi novel and the first in the seminal Culture universe. The dust jacket is NOT price clipped showing the correct £10.95 net price. Natural toning of the paper commensurate with age is very minimal. Book is aquare and yellow boards are clean. No previous owners inscriptions, no bookplates, no stamps. Condition: a lovely, fine copy and probably unread.

Inscribed copies are prefered by the collector due to the additional security and comparability of the handwriting. In recent years a number of forged Banks signatures have emerged. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page: To Richard from Iain M Banks 15/3/89. Banks (1987) Consider Phlebas, UK first edition, first printing, published by Macmillan.

Consider phlebas first edition