Thoughts: November 25, 2014

Early morning thoughts with Gustav Mahler
and other old friends …

“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.”
- From “The Second Coming”
William Butler Yeats

 “I, on men’s impious uproar hurl’d,

 Think often, as I hear them rave,
 That peace has left the upper world
 And now keeps only in the grave.”
- From “Lines Written in Kensington Gardens”
Matthew Arnold

 "Who's winning? Nobody's winning. Cities are dying and ships are sinking and aircraft is going in, but nobody's winning."

- From “Alas Babyon”
Pat Frank


Lynne Mapp Drexler, “Gotterdammerung”, 1959

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