22 December 2022

Another Booth cartoon for English majors


I'll let some reader post the appropriate reference in the Comment section.  Full first verse, please, because it seems so relevant to our modern world.

5 comments:

  1. I assume you mean Yeats's Second Coming?

    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.

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  2. 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.
    William Butler Yeats

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  3. From somewhere in The Picture of Dorian Gray?

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  4. "Turning and turning in the widening gyre
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
    Things fall apart; the center cannot hold..."

    and then he broke off, his brow creasing. He said, "shit. I used to know the whole thing."

    --American Gods, Neil Gaiman

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  5. Clearly a prescient League of Legends reference.

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