On 10/30/12, andie_nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> This is beautiful the way Reifenstahl is beautiful, I have to agree with
> Carroll. It _is_ beautiful. And deeply fascistic. I prefer 1919 myself.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Oct 29, 2012, at 12:44 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
>
>> I could not help but fall in love with Yeats' poems: here's Irish Airman
>> Forsees His Death
>>
>> I know that I shall meet my fate
>> Somewhere among the clouds above;
>> Those that I fight I do not hate,
>> Those that I guard I do not love;
>> My country is Kiltartan Cross,
>> My countrymen Kiltartan's poor,
>> No likely end could bring them loss
>> Or leave them happier than before.
>> Nor law, nor duty bade me fight,
>> Nor public men, nor cheering crowds,
>> A lonely impulse of delight
>> Drove to this tumult in the clouds;
>> I balanced all, brought all to mind,
>> The years to come seemed waste of breath,
>> A waste of breath the years behind
>> In balance with this life, this death.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> Yeats's "Irish Airman" reeals its core vileness (along with its greatness)
>>
>> only to those who have watched the final scenes of All Quiet on the
>> Western
>> Front. You have to see that airplane up in the corner of the film.
>>
>> Carrol
>>
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