Correction (retrograde example of) Re: [New-Poetry] (no subject)
David Bircumshaw
david.bircumshaw at ntlworld.com
Thu Jul 27 19:12:26 EDT 2006
>as is that defunct by then
> already in the delirium of St Revelation John.
'god', in the lower-case, has been typographically omitted from my closing:
should be:
as is that defunct by then +god+
> already in the delirium of St Revelation John.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Bircumshaw" <david.bircumshaw at ntlworld.com>
To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &Views"
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Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] (no subject)
> You have to be very careful witrh Yeats' great piece of windbag rhetoric,
> Richard, as well, I might add, with the theatrics of the Book of
> Revelations. Yeats' poem came to prominence through widespread
> misapphrension of what he was 'talking' about: 'the best lack all
> conviction/ while the worst are full of a passionate intensity' was widely
> seen as the Prophet Yeats predicting the rise of Nazism, as was that rough
> beast. He meant nothing of the sort, as the little cryptic note to the
poem
> in his Collected implies. The best were his extremely dodgy fringe
fascisti
> friends in the little green island, the worst were people who were in
favour
> of council houses in England having baths because everyone knew that the
> working classes would use their baths to store coal in, I'm not of the
camp
> who think Yeats was a full-blown facist, but he was friendly with the
devil,
> and he was a pathetic fantasing arrogant snob, but a great poet, his
first,
> and authorised, biography by the Nazi sympathiser Joseph Hone (pub. 1941,
of
> all years) when the little green government was covertly sympathising with
> Hitler and the IRA were planting bombs in Coventry (of all places) weasly
> implies all.
>
> Mecury, that god of communication, was very definitely retrograde in the
> reception of Yeats's admitedly powerful rhetoric, as is that defunct by
then
> already in the delirium of St Revelation John.
>
> All the Best
>
> Dave
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <elemenope at icubed.com>
> To: <new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 12:34 AM
> Subject: [New-Poetry] (no subject)
>
>
> > (Taken from correspondence outside this list, but the content is
> > immediatly apparent to interested parties.
> >
> > R.D.)
> >
> >
> >
> > And Mercury is retrograde until the 28th. Lots of Mercury retro
glitches
> > in my video work.
> >
> > I'm writing on Tuesday. I may be going up to Chatauqua, N.Y. on
Thursday.
> >
> > I've been busy evaluating the question: Is Terra undergoing WWW IV?
(USSR
> > vs. USA Cold War being WWW III.) If so, is this the Battle of
Armageddon
> > as predicted in "The Book of Revelations," or the prophecy W.B. Yeats
saw
> > in his poem, "The Second Coming."
> >
> > A "gyre" is a funnel shaped, spring-like pattern Yeats used to measure
the
> > ages of 2000 years that mark the Great Astrological Cycle of 24,000
years.
> > The falcon and the Falconer point to the relationship of man's control
> > over the ferocity of animal will and mind; also, consider the fact that
> > the Arabs are associated with falconry. The term, "Spiritus Mundi,"
means
> > the Collective Unconsciousness of Deepest Dream Archetypes, or the
Akashik
> > Records. I quote from memory:
> >
> > THE SECOND COMING
> >
> > Turning and turning in the ever widening gyre,
> > The falcon cannot hear the falconer,
> > Things fall apart, the center cannot hold
> > Mere anarchy is loosed upon the earth,
> > Everywhere the blood dimmed tide is loosed.
> > And the ceremony of innocence is drowned.
> > The best lack all conviction,
> > While the worst are filled with passionate intensity.
> > Surely some revelation is at hand.
> > Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
> > The Second Coming! No sooner are those words out,
> > When a vast image out of the Spiritus Mundi
> > Arises to trouble my sight.
> > Somewhere in sands of desert
> > A shape with body of lion and head of a man
> > Is moving its slow thighs
> > While all about it screech the indignant cries
> > Of desert birds. The darkness drops again.
> > But now I know that twenty centuries of stony sleep,
> > Where vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle.
> > And what rough beast? Its hour come round at last,
> > Slouches towards Bethelem to be born.
> >
> > (Circa 1921)
> >
> >
> >
> > > I'm going to call you.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> >
> > > Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 1:30 PM
> > > Subject: Re: Fw: Fw: WE WILL NEVER SEE THIS AGAIN IN OUR LIFETIME
> > >
> > >
> > >> Remember the mechanically physical effects of Mercury Retrograde as
> > >> Mercury stopped stationary, retreated backwards, stopped, and then
went
> > >> back over the path it had just traced. Remember the analogy of a
boat
> > >> and
> > >> its wake.
> > >>
> > >> Now consider the current planetary crisis. What is Mars doing? And
> > >> what
> > >> is Mars in mythology? Mars (Roman), Ares (Greek), the GAWD OV WAR!
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> We will never see this again in our lifetime
> > >>>
> > >>> ...nor will the people of the next 50-to-1,000 Life
> > >>> Times!
> > >>> Mars
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> The Red Planet is about to be spectacular!
> > >>>
> > >>> This month and next, Earth is catching up with Mars in
> an
> > >>> encounter that
> > >>> will culminate in the closest approach between the
two
> > >>> planets in
> > >>> recorded history. The next time Mars may come this
> close
> > >>> is
> > >>> in 2287. Due to the way Jupiter's gravity tugs on
> > >>> Mars and perturbs its orbit, astronomers can only be
> > >>> certain that Mars has not come this close to Earth
> > >>> in the Last 5,000 years, but it may be as long as
> > >>> 60,000 years before it happens again.
> > >>>
> > >>> The encounter will culminate on August 27th when
> > >>> Mars comes to within 34,649,589 miles of Earth and
> > >>> will be (next to the moon) the brightest object in
> > >>> the night sky. It will attain a magnitude of -2.9
> > >>> and will appear 25.11 arc seconds wide. At a modest
> > >>> 75-power magnification...
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Mars will look as large as the full moon to the naked
> > >>> eye.
> > >>>
> > >>> Mars will be easy to spot. At the
> > >>> beginning of August it will rise in the east at 10p.m.
> > >>> and reach its azimuth at about 3 a.m.
> > >>>
> > >>> By the end of August when the two planets are
> > >>> closest, Mars will rise at nightfall and reach its
> > >>> highest point in the sky at 12:30a.m. That's pretty
> > >>> convenient to see something that no human being has
> > >>> seen in recorded history. So, mark your calendar at
> > >>> the beginning of August to see Mars grow
> > >>> progressively brighter and brighter throughout the
> > >>> month.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Share this with your children and grandchildren.
> > >>>
> > >>> NO ONE ALIVE TODAY WILL EVER SEE THIS AGAIN
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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