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I think the title 'Gerontion' refers the T.S. Elliot poem, but not only because it is about an old man reflecting on his life critically (like Todd says). Gerontion was the favorite poet of the famed (and crazy) CIA counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton - in fact, a verse from the poem (which became