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<title><![CDATA[Yeats -'things fall apart']]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Yeats wrote “things fall apart; the centre cannot hold”, but that doesn’t mean there is no cen]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeats wrote “things fall apart; the centre cannot hold”, but that doesn’t mean there is no centre; it means its being re-evaluated. Here is that phrase in context:</p>
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<blockquote><p><i>Turning and turning in the widening gyre<br />
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;<br />
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;<br />
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,<br />
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere<br />
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;<br />
The best lack all conviction, while the worst<br />
Are full of passionate intensity.<br />
Surely some revelation is at hand;<br />
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.<br />
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out<br />
When a vast image out of “Spiritus Mundi”<br />
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert<br />
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,<br />
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,<br />
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it<br />
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.<br />
The darkness drops again; but now I know<br />
That twenty centuries of stony sleep<br />
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,<br />
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,<br />
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?</i></p></blockquote>
<p><i>William Butler Yeats: The Second Coming</i></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>We are now in an age where we have to create for ourselves the ´centre´ just as we have to create a series of short-term ´communities´.  But the source of the centre and the source of community is the same - the mystical centre, the perennial philosophy that is the eternal reality.  Its just that the form of the centre and the form of the community changes a bit every day instead of lasting aeons.</p></blockquote>
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