Posted on 05/07/2010 2:13:19 PM PDT by Noumenon
bookmarked. Thanks
Well done.
BTTT
One of the most remarkable, beautifully written, and absolutely dead-on-balls-accurate analyses I’ve ever read.
It is a masterpiece.
In light of recent events, it’s time to lift this one back to the top.
Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.
A current under sea
Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering the whirlpool.
Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
—T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland lines 318-326
Why did you post that to me?
Two reasons:
1. To pop this back to the top.
2. I thought you might enjoy the literary reference.
Grim literary reference. I’m appalled it reminded you of me.
Well, here's something a little lighter:
The demonic face rose again, howling in the pure ecstasy of murder and rage and violence. Bits of flesh began rending from the lady's body, as the dogs ravenously set upon it with a murderous lust. Flesh, blood, brains: all sprayed, in jets, against the cold, slime-covered rock walls.
-- Lazamataz, Random Musings of Love and Peace, 1976 - ISBN 198573-91992
The demonic face rose again, howling in the pure ecstasy of murder and rage and violence. Bits of flesh began rending from the lady's body, as the dogs ravenously set upon it with a murderous lust. Flesh, blood, brains: all sprayed, in jets, against the cold, slime-covered rock walls.
-- Lazamataz, Random Musings of Love and Peace, 1976 - ISBN 198573-91992
Stop harrassing me.
YOU are harassing ME, by BEING ON FREE REPUBLIC.
Actually, that quote from The Wasteland didn’t remind me of you. It was more matter of what I presumed to be a shared outlook and a nod to Eliots powerful and evocative imagery.
5.56mm
Well it is indeed “powerful and evocative imagery,” I’ll give you that.
I just don’t usually get posts about floating dead bodies, that’s all.
It is my conjecture that we’re going to see a lot of dead bodies, floating and otherwise, in our near future. A wasteland indeed.
I pray not.
Put enough lead and copper into them, and they won’t float.
At least not until the trapped gasses of putrification provide adequate positive buoyancy.
Except for Lake Gitche Gumee - it never gives up its dead.
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead when the skies of November turn gloomy
Very late to the party. WRSA pointed this out.
One of the best pieces I’ve read in a long time.
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