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And then, as we see, there are those who DO mean to do the harm.
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them. -T.S. Eliot, poet (26 Sep 1888-1965)
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And then, as we see, there are those who DO mean to do the harm.
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them. -T.S. Eliot, poet (26 Sep 1888-1965)
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And then, as we see, there are those who DO mean to do the harm.
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them. -T.S. Eliot, poet (26 Sep 1888-1965)
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And then, as we see, there are those who DO mean to do the harm.
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them. -T.S. Eliot, poet (26 Sep 1888-1965)
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And then, as we see, there are those who DO mean to do the harm.
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them. -T.S. Eliot, poet (26 Sep 1888-1965)
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@SearingTruth Actually, the poem your post reminded of was from #TSElliot, not Yeats (though Yeats is relevant as well):
" 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."From #TheHollowMen, TS Elliot, 1925.
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@SearingTruth Actually, the poem your post reminded of was from #TSElliot, not Yeats (though Yeats is relevant as well):
" 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."From #TheHollowMen, TS Elliot, 1925.
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@SearingTruth Actually, the poem your post reminded of was from #TSElliot, not Yeats (though Yeats is relevant as well):
" 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."From #TheHollowMen, TS Elliot, 1925.
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@SearingTruth Actually, the poem your post reminded of was from #TSElliot, not Yeats (though Yeats is relevant as well):
" 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."From #TheHollowMen, TS Elliot, 1925.
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@SearingTruth Actually, the poem your post reminded of was from #TSElliot, not Yeats (though Yeats is relevant as well):
" 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."From #TheHollowMen, TS Elliot, 1925.
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Dedicating this to Christopher A. Wray, the current head of the #FBI, upon him announcing his intention to resign which saves #47 the trouble of firing him.
#Wray #ChristopherAWray #ChristopherWray #TheHollowMen #TSElliot #Gutless #Wimp
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Dedicating this to Christopher A. Wray, the current head of the #FBI, upon him announcing his intention to resign which saves #47 the trouble of firing him.
#Wray #ChristopherAWray #ChristopherWray #TheHollowMen #TSElliot #Gutless #Wimp
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Dedicating this to Christopher A. Wray, the current head of the #FBI, upon him announcing his intention to resign which saves #47 the trouble of firing him.
#Wray #ChristopherAWray #ChristopherWray #TheHollowMen #TSElliot #Gutless #Wimp
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Dedicating this to Christopher A. Wray, the current head of the #FBI, upon him announcing his intention to resign which saves #47 the trouble of firing him.
#Wray #ChristopherAWray #ChristopherWray #TheHollowMen #TSElliot #Gutless #Wimp
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Dedicating this to Christopher A. Wray, the current head of the #FBI, upon him announcing his intention to resign which saves #47 the trouble of firing him.
#Wray #ChristopherAWray #ChristopherWray #TheHollowMen #TSElliot #Gutless #Wimp
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The Hollow Men: Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the shadow. -T.S. Eliot, poet (26 Sep 1888-1965)
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The Hollow Men: Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the shadow. -T.S. Eliot, poet (26 Sep 1888-1965)
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The Hollow Men: Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the shadow. -T.S. Eliot, poet (26 Sep 1888-1965)
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The Hollow Men: Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the shadow. -T.S. Eliot, poet (26 Sep 1888-1965)
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The Hollow Men: Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the shadow. -T.S. Eliot, poet (26 Sep 1888-1965)
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I've read "The Hollow Men" by T.S. Elliot through twice now. The first time I was too busy saying "wow" at the way the imagery conjured up the end of the universe, "not with a bang, but a whimper."
The second reading, I noticed a subheading "Penny for the Old Guy" and the scarecrow imagery, reminding me (as was probably intentional) of Guy Fawkes' Night celebrations. And then it slid back into the End of The Universe.
Maybe, third reading through, I'll see what Elliot intended. But maybe it'll still be the universe...
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Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,
Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum—
Names that never belong to more than one cat.
But above and beyond there’s still one name left over,
And that is the name that you never will guess;
The name that no human research can discover—
But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
His ineffable effable
Effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular name.#TSElliot
#poetry
#cats
#catsofmastodonSource:
https://poets.org/poem/naming-cats
From Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Copyright © 1939 by T. S. Eliot, renewed © 1967 by Esme Valerie Eliot
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Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,
Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum—
Names that never belong to more than one cat.
But above and beyond there’s still one name left over,
And that is the name that you never will guess;
The name that no human research can discover—
But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
His ineffable effable
Effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular name.#TSElliot
#poetry
#cats
#catsofmastodonSource:
https://poets.org/poem/naming-cats
From Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Copyright © 1939 by T. S. Eliot, renewed © 1967 by Esme Valerie Eliot
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Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,
Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum—
Names that never belong to more than one cat.
But above and beyond there’s still one name left over,
And that is the name that you never will guess;
The name that no human research can discover—
But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
His ineffable effable
Effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular name.#TSElliot
#poetry
#cats
#catsofmastodonSource:
https://poets.org/poem/naming-cats
From Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Copyright © 1939 by T. S. Eliot, renewed © 1967 by Esme Valerie Eliot
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Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,
Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum—
Names that never belong to more than one cat.
But above and beyond there’s still one name left over,
And that is the name that you never will guess;
The name that no human research can discover—
But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
His ineffable effable
Effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular name.#TSElliot
#poetry
#cats
#catsofmastodonSource:
https://poets.org/poem/naming-cats
From Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Copyright © 1939 by T. S. Eliot, renewed © 1967 by Esme Valerie Eliot
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Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,
Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum—
Names that never belong to more than one cat.
But above and beyond there’s still one name left over,
And that is the name that you never will guess;
The name that no human research can discover—
But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
His ineffable effable
Effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular name.#TSElliot
#poetry
#cats
#catsofmastodonSource:
https://poets.org/poem/naming-cats
From Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Copyright © 1939 by T. S. Eliot, renewed © 1967 by Esme Valerie Eliot
