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Almost a bit of playfulness by Eliot with the entrance of the Fourth Tempter.
"Thomas:
Who are you? I expected
Three visitors, not four."
and a great comeback from the Fourth Tempter:
"...
Had I been expected, I had been here before,
I always precede expectation."
We are preset to expect a Trinity. Thus, what the Fourth Tempter has to say may capture our attention more because it breaks a pattern.
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