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PotOnWheel
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Date Joined Jul 2001
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| Posted 11/15/2001 4:11 PM (GMT -6) |   |
"The Rock"
by T.S. Eliot,
from his Four Quartets
(on the Nativity of Christ)
Then came, as a predetermined moment,
a moment in time and of time.
A moment not out of time, but in time,
in what we call history:
transecting, bisecting the world of time,
a moment in time but not like a moment of time.
A moment in time but time was made through that moment:
for without the meaning there is no time,
and that moment of time gave the meaning. | | Back to Top | | |
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Semeia
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Date Joined Aug 2001
Total Posts : 522
| Posted 11/15/2001 8:40 PM (GMT -6) | | Don't get me started. I love Eliot. I'm just going to let it sit, though, because it's perfect. Do you notice how amazingly in tune it is with the complex Bonhoeffer quote about the beginning? Poetry can sure save a lot of words.
Semeia
"The opposite of sin is not virtue, but faith."--Soren Kierkegaard | | Back to Top | | |
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