The Second Coming
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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?

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I fathom the psychiatrists are doing a roaring trade at the moment. Do you like the last two lines, as much as I like them? They piqued my interest in alt.slack when They were talking about something, referring to Cthulhu, Cthugha, (hi Zaph!) or maybe even one of those nice Wampa-like fellows from Quake, a Shoggoth, being 'released' by the crash at the Pentagon, "Last seen slouching towards Bethlehem, ha ha".

One thought I had was that the Pentagon was a good place to keep the Military, in the same way that America was a good place to keep Americans. But now the cage is open, or rather, the circle has been broken, and the spell, America's military, is now free to run amok across the earth. Ye gods.

While on the subject of elder gods and the rituals that were supposed to keep them in check, a thread running through the collective unconscious at the moment draws a comparison between the burning (and collapsing)
World Trade Centre towers and the Wicker Man sacrifices of pagan days. Depending on your perspective, the buildings were either full of criminals, or full of innocent, virginal souls. The poor and disposessed
of the world would call them all criminals, especially those that profit from or work in the legal system or the financial systems. The lower-class temps, office workers, cleaners, etcetera, more innocent,
and most famously, the firemen who perished, could all be seen as virginal, or at least pure in spirit. Pagan sacrifices were usually criminals or virgins, I don't really know that much about it, but I don't think they were ever both knocked off at the same time.

Fuckin' hell, look at those first four lines again.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The planes that were hijacked, when shown in the tv reports, turned away from their intended courses and did indeed wander all over the place before they reached their infernal destinations.

The falcon cannot hear the falconer

Transponders were allegedly turned off, and there seems to have been little if any communication between the planes and the FAA.

Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold

Well, apart from the bleeding obvious, the moderates (centre) appear to have lost their voice in the US Senate, the one person daring to question the bills being passed now receiving death threats.

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world

I guess we're up to this part. Sleep safe, kiddies, and remember: we're either with America or against it. So much for the 'third way'.

Alex
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