tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post8663959083654216949..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: NasraniMarly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-39316396803394222582014-08-23T13:58:30.222-04:002014-08-23T13:58:30.222-04:00Of course, kingdoms come and kingdoms go. I do not...Of course, kingdoms come and kingdoms go. I do not believe in the tenets of modernism and progress, and I take a more mystical view of our place in the world...Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-10098850713237473492014-08-23T11:56:08.160-04:002014-08-23T11:56:08.160-04:00I, too, am pessimistic about coming times.I, too, am pessimistic about coming times.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-25142776974030274222014-08-23T11:35:10.291-04:002014-08-23T11:35:10.291-04:00Perhaps there is (will be) no one entity as the &q...Perhaps there is (will be) no one entity as the "rough beast." Perhaps the metaphor refers to something more. We are then in big, big trouble. And I think you are on to something in your earlier comment about the pointy-headed, de-spirited, soul-less intellectuals who embrace (a)moral relativism as their higher power. Damn, I hate being so pessimistic! (Last night I started rereading R.T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13220814349193561823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-14862130638580136722014-08-23T11:30:29.896-04:002014-08-23T11:30:29.896-04:00Interesting how foolish Yeats was often seen to be...Interesting how foolish Yeats was often seen to be because of his overarching metaphors of moon stages and gyres as ways of looking at history. And yet now we are in the realm of "the centre cannot hold" and "mere anarchy." If we take Yeats's ideas as our model, then we should have expected, 2,000 years after Christ, the "rough beast" antithesis of Christ to be Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-74875782486538568412014-08-23T11:17:50.080-04:002014-08-23T11:17:50.080-04:00Men came back from the big wars (I and II -- and K...Men came back from the big wars (I and II -- and Korea and Vietnam), and they were forever changed. They had seen things no one should ever have to witness. Folks back home could not appreciate the men's transformations and sorrows. Now what has happened long after those "great" wars? Wiser fools than I have zeroed in on one of the problems in the last half century: people have beenR.T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13220814349193561823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-37861010181419476722014-08-23T10:45:01.360-04:002014-08-23T10:45:01.360-04:00I wondered what difference the speed of knowledge ...I wondered what difference the speed of knowledge would make--we see a little girl's headless body not long after the head was sawn off with what was clearly a rather blunt knife, we see the toddlers in rows of death instead of frisking at play, we see young men crucified and sagging from trees and scaffolds and others being shot and falling into a ditch. It doesn't seem to make as much Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-43746982228839203742014-08-23T10:10:02.515-04:002014-08-23T10:10:02.515-04:00People in America prior to great wars saw things t...People in America prior to great wars saw things to be broken and dangerous -- yet the wars could not be avoided (e.g., American civil war, The "Great War" [WW1], and WW2). Oddly enough, America's geographical isolation from the rest of the world has often meant we only belatedly recognized and confronted what was perhaps inevitable -- even when it exists within our own borders. R.T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13220814349193561823noreply@blogger.com