Terrorist Action In Ten Words Or Less.

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go for it.

Psyk.Trek, Wednesday, 12 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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phil, Wednesday, 12 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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Kodanshi, Wednesday, 12 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Humanity is horrible and wonderful.

Dan Perry, Wednesday, 12 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can't believe it's the same world.

the pinefox, Wednesday, 12 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is it really so strange.

Nitsuh, Wednesday, 12 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The center cannot hold.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

there never was a centre

Geoff, Wednesday, 12 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The sun always rises.

Madchen, Wednesday, 12 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am trying to deal with this in my blog, but i am too in shock to get any answers/

anthony, Wednesday, 12 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is terrorism the continuation of politics by other means?

dV, Wednesday, 12 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Everything has a subtext now.

Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Wednesday, 12 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

meaningless words: the living shall envy the dead.

jess, Wednesday, 12 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

More than 10 words, but Yeats kicks Nostradamus's arse:

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?

Sam, Wednesday, 12 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thank ya, Sam -- that was indeed was I was referring to. Odd how the double meaning of the phrase applies.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'what I was,' oh yes.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sam: were you making a larger point re. the relation of the poem to the event?

the pinefox, Wednesday, 12 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thanks Ned. I have been thinking of that almost first thing.

anthony, Wednesday, 12 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

even other people's religions comfort

maria, Wednesday, 12 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Analysis brings success

dave q, Wednesday, 12 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Not really a point PF, just that some of the imagery seems spookily relevant. And it's a very apocalyptic poem, which seems unfortunately to suit the current mood.

Sam, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)


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