some brilliant title
However, it has some history
" I have measured out my life in teaspoons "
by T.S. Eliot
the actual quote and explanation
Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. ... When Prufrock says, in the poem's seventh stanza, "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons," what he means is that his life has always been carefully controlled and predictable—in other words, measured. The image of the coffee spoon is one of middle-class domesticity.
I always had the feeling of failure when I heard those words. The context was a character quoting his wife, an English professor in Venice. The he, is Inspectore Guido Brunetti as written by Donna Leon < American ex-pat, in Venice >
Maybe, giving sparingly to life. Never exploding into the mayhem of existence
Well, whatever its not me
I mean - my life has been in coffee spoons
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