Tyler Durden
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Wed Feb-27-08 07:04 AM
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The Hollow Men T. S. Eliot
Mistah Kurtz—he dead.
A penny for the Old Guy
I
We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats’ feet over broken glass In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom Remember us—if at all—not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.
II
Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death’s dream kingdom These do not appear: There, the eyes are Sunlight on a broken column There, is a tree swinging And voices are In the wind’s singing More distant and more solemn Than a fading star.
Let me be no nearer In death’s dream kingdom Let me also wear Such deliberate disguises Rat’s coat, crowskin, crossed staves In a field Behaving as the wind behaves No nearer—
Not that final meeting In the twilight kingdom
III
This is the dead land This is cactus land Here the stone images Are raised, here they receive The supplication of a dead man’s hand Under the twinkle of a fading star.
Is it like this In death’s other kingdom Waking alone At the hour when we are Trembling with tenderness Lips that would kiss Form prayers to broken stone.
IV
The eyes are not here There are no eyes here In this valley of dying stars In this hollow valley This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms
In this last of meeting places We grope together And avoid speech Gathered on this beach of the tumid river
Sightless, unless The eyes reappear As the perpetual star Multifoliate rose Of death’s twilight kingdom The hope only Of empty men.
V
Here we go round the prickly pear Prickly pear prickly pear Here we go round the prickly pear At five o’clock in the morning.
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Life is very long
Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is Life is For Thine is the
This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.
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Perry Logan
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Wed Feb-27-08 07:17 AM
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1. "And we are here as on a darkling plain / Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight..." |
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Edited on Wed Feb-27-08 07:18 AM by Perry Logan
"...Where ignorant armies clash by night." http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/18/
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Tyler Durden
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Wed Feb-27-08 07:41 AM
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2. How're the rants coming? |
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I don't remember one on the HOME page for some time.
I don't know the name of this one, but I've always loved it:
If you are able, case for them a place inside of you and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go. Be not ashamed to say you loved them, though you may or may not have always. Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own. And in that times when men decided and feel safe to call the war insane, wake one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind.
Major Michael Davis O'Donnell 1 January 1970 Dak To, Vietnam
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Wed Feb-27-08 07:47 AM
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3. A very cool poem. I'm having illegal amounts of fun with my rants. |
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Wed Feb-27-08 08:34 AM
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4. I'll just have to go to your site. |
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I'm spending less and less time here anyway.
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Wed Feb-27-08 08:41 AM
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5. CHRIST Perry! You get 700K+ google hits on your name. |
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That 15 minutes is stretching out there, hey?
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Wed Feb-27-08 01:56 PM
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6. A lot of those hits are for my clones. |
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