Chase, the show's creator wove in many
indexes to literature--most notably the Leslie
Fielder appreciation of Moby Dick... in a
hilarious episode demolishing that
machismo culture's rampant homophobia.
Gerald S.
> "Not much of a TV watcher, but I read that Tony Soprano's son quotes
> Yeats at a family gathering and pronounces the poet's name so it sounds
> like "Keats." Kiss me, Keat. I wonder how many people over the years
> have made *that* mistake."
>
> hahah: William Butler Yeast.
>
> it's a great poem though no doubt. apocalyptic. Ted Hughes sounds like
> this a lot of the time
>
> KS
>
> On 11/06/07, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> 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 Spritus Mundi
>> Troubles my sight: somewhere in the 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?
>>
>> W.B.Yeats
>>
>> --
>> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
>> "In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons."
>> Roman Proverb
>>
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