[gruseom]

What I meant is that there is no other plausible lineage for that quote - and I've looked. If you claim otherwise, I'd love to see the citation.

It doesn't help to replace one obscure jargon with another, even more obscure jargon.

[FreakLegion]

Absolutely that's the provenance of the saying. Eliot just wasn't saying what the saying says =).