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Art: Tityus, Vecellio Tiziano, 1549
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on that sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
- Dylan Thomas
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Friday, April 25, 2008
Friday's Art & Prose
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Friday's Verse (a bit late)
Art: The Rape of Europa, Vecellio Tiziano, 1562
The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
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.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
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, 1920
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Interesting Posts From Around The Web - 13 March 2008
Interesting posts from around the web, all below the fold:
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Art: Sisyphus, Vecellio Tiziano, 1549
A Rose By Any Other Name: A fallen hero.
Dinah Lord: Kidnapped Iraqi Archbishop found dead.
The Transatlantic Conservative: John McCain and the Pledge of Allegiance. Its quite a moving story.
Classical Values: "Wright is raw. Obama is smooth. Different sales pitch. Same product." Watch the video.
Ironic Surrealism: Much more on Obama’s racist Reverend Wright.
Q&O: Hillary gets fact checked with predictable results.
The New Editor: Per Instapundit, Hillary plays the Dork Card.
Winds of Change: Evaluating Geraldine Ferarro’s comments on Obama.
Redstate: Quid pro crook - Obama, earmarks, and his wife’s salary.
This Ain’t Hell: Code Pink suffers mission failure . . . and yes, that dress makes you look fat.
Red Alerts: The good and bad news about the economy from an interview with legendary economist Anna Schwartz, who co-authored the revolutionary "Monetary History of the United States" with Milton Friedman.
A Western Heart: Our economic woes are wholly self-inflicted. This is not the normal business cycle.
Vast Rightwing Conspiracy: Obama pulls a Kerry on the issue of mail in voting.
The Irish Elk: "Ho No," it’s a good Spitzer round-up.
An Englishman’s Castle: The UK has granted an asylum to a rouge’s gallery of people who have no business in the West whatsoever. Now, in the case of a young gay man from Iran who faces execution for his homosexuality, where there should be no question that asylum is appropriate, the UK is inexplicably dragging its feet.
Fulham Reactionary: Indeed, as to illegal immigrants, it seems but for the odd Iranian homosexual, the police aren’t even really trying anymore.
Seraphic Secret: Israel releases its annual intel report and Iran puts a bounty on Irsraeli leaders.
Shrinkwrapped: Has Israel lost the will to live?
The Shield of Achilles: I thought this was answered several millenia ago. Should incestuous marriages be declared illegal?
Liberty Corner: Taking on the arguments against teaching intelligent design.
Sigmund, Carl & Alfred: PC Manspeak. Heh.
The Dhiveistan Report: "[T]he penis of the Elected never softens, the erection is eternal. The sensation that you feel each time you make love is utterly delicious . . ." Surprisingly, this is not out of Eliot Spitzer’s journal. It is more insidious than that.
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