[lbo-talk] Low Life (was "Come friendly bombers" )

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Thu Jul 14 11:13:03 PDT 2005


"Tumid apathy" -- that's pretty good.

No all subways are created equal though; London's is dim indeed. But the Paris subway was always an upper; the Prague subway is very fun; and the Moscow subway looks like a blast. I don't know what the atmosphere is though...Chris can enlighten us.

Joanna

Carrol Cox wrote:


>T. S. Eliot on the London Subway.
>
>Here is a place of disaffection
>Time before and time after
>In a dim light: neither daylight
>Investing form with lucid stillness
>Turning shadow into transient beauty
>With slow rotation suggesting permanence
>Nor darkness to purify the soul
>Emptying the sensual with deprivation
>Cleansing affection from the temporal.
>Neither plenitude nor vacancy. Only a flicker
>Over the strained time-ridden faces
>Distracted from distraction by distraction
>Filled with fancies and empty of meaning
>Tumid apathy with no concentration
>
>
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