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To: tet68

From Stephen Kings novel ‘The Stand’

“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.”

We (human race) are nothing but talking monkeys playing with matches.


6 posted on 05/04/2013 5:40:14 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer; null and void

Bring out your....


12 posted on 05/04/2013 5:48:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: chessplayer

That is actually a well known poem penned long before Steven King....
But very true today


26 posted on 05/04/2013 6:25:21 PM PDT by Mom MD (A million people attended Obamas inauguration. 14 of them actually missed work)
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To: chessplayer

King was quoting Yeats.

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.


29 posted on 05/04/2013 6:38:19 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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