Nov. 17th, 2011

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Логика - единорог. Человек, приустав, идет за ней в сон, в лес (семь вёрст до небес),
однако она сама выгоняет человека из леса. И человек кричит: "Человечность - это тайна!"
Но если сказать "тайна", ещё не значит, что тайна появится.
Лучше не гнаться человеку за единорогом. Пусть он останется блуждать
в лесу. Или пусть он сам рано или поздно вынырнет из леса и сам собой покажет тайну.
На кончике рога.

T.S.ELIOT

Nov. 17th, 2011 03:03 pm
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From “East Cocker”

What is the late November doing
With the disturbance of the spring
And creatures of the summer heat,
And snowdrops writhing under feet
And hollyhocks that aim too high
Red into grey and tumble down
Late roses filled with early snow?
Thunder rolled by the rolling stars
Simulates triumphal cars
Deployed in constellated wars
Scorpion fights against the Sun
Until the Sun and Moon go down
Comets weep and Leonids fly
Hunt the heavens and the plains
Whirled in a vortex that shall bring
The world to that destructive fire
Which burns before the ice-cap reigns.

From “Little Gidding”

Ash on and old man's sleeve
Is all the ash the burnt roses leave.
Dust in the air suspended
Marks the place where a story ended.
Dust inbreathed was a house—
The walls, the wainscot and the mouse,
The death of hope and despair,
This is the death of air.

There are flood and drouth
Over the eyes and in the mouth,
Dead water and dead sand
Contending for the upper hand.
The parched eviscerate soil
Gapes at the vanity of toil,
Laughs without mirth.
This is the death of earth.

Water and fire succeed
The town, the pasture and the weed.
Water and fire deride
The sacrifice that we denied.
Water and fire shall rot
The marred foundations we forgot,
Of sanctuary and choir.
This is the death of water and fire.

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