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What Rough Beast

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 [...]

Posted 26 May 2008 † Ray Watkins § War ‡ Comments (0) °

Fugees: Vocab

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Posted 20 February 2008 † Ray Watkins § Miscellaneous ‡ Comments (0) °

Frozen Grand Central

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Posted 13 February 2008 † Ray Watkins § Miscellaneous § Writing ‡ Comments (0) °

A Wilderness of Mirrors

These with a thousand small deliberations
Protract the profit of their chilled delirium,
Excite the membrane, when the sense has cooled,
With pungent sauces, multiply variety
In a wilderness of mirrors. What will the spider do,
Suspend its operations, will the weevil
Delay? De Bailhache, Fresca, Mrs. Cammel, whirled
Beyond the circuit of the shuddering Bear
In fractured atoms. Gull against the wind, [...]

Posted 01 February 2008 † Ray Watkins § Autobiographical § Miscellaneous ‡ Comments (0) °