# Wire in the Blood

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wire-in-the-blood/449957>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 20, 2008, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wire-in-the-blood/449957 "2008-05-20T11:40:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wire-in-the-blood/449957/1 "2008-05-20T11:40:28Z")

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What does this BBC title mean?

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wire-in-the-blood/449957/2 "2008-05-20T12:23:43Z")

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I know nothing about the show, but “The trilling wire in the blood” is a quote from part II of T.S. Eliot’s [Burnt Norton](http://www.tristan.icom43.net/quartets/norton.html) from _Four Quartets_.

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**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wire-in-the-blood/449957/3 "2008-05-20T14:14:52Z")

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Having read most of the books in the series (all of which take their names from T.S. Eliot) and having just finished watching the series through the end of season 3 (Netflix)…I have no idea what it means.