On Jun 23, 2008, at 3:39 PM, Thomas Seay wrote:
> Things fall apart; the center 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.
>
> -WB Yeats
As I think I've pointed out before when this was quoted, according to Harold Bloom, Yeats meant this in a reactionary, proto-fascist way.
Doug