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Sat Feb-27-10 09:29 AM
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Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
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Sat Feb-27-10 09:35 AM
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1. Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow |
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In politics.
On the Internet.
In science and in the arts.
Here at DU.
Everywhere else.
--d!
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Sat Feb-27-10 09:36 AM
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2. Surely some revelation is at hand; |
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Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
-- William Butler Yeats, January 1919
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Sat Feb-27-10 09:38 AM
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what... slouches...to be born?
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Sat Feb-27-10 09:57 AM
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8. "Mere anarchy" seems a good bet, and quite a lot of it. |
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Otherwise it is hard to predict. I do think we have the privilege of witnessing the end of an great historical period. Things quite clearly cannot go on as they are, or even close to as they are.
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Sat Feb-27-10 09:40 AM
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4. I say let's have less of those smarty-pants poets from Ireland and more |
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Sat Feb-27-10 09:43 AM
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5. Yeats is soooo arrogant after all... |
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Sat Feb-27-10 09:46 AM
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7. At the "What rough beast / Its hour come 'round at last" part, I got a visual |
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of Jim Bunning blathering on the floor of the U.S. Senate this week.
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