ANZAC Day (belatedly)

[oothoona]

Parable of the Old Men and the Young

Comments

[azahru]

such an amazing poet, "Futility" can still make me cry

Collected Letters

[iki_maska]

Our library had Wilfred Owen's collected letters, they were mostly to his father and were copiously illustrated. Engrossing reading.

Move him into the sun...

[myrthe]

Oooh! Slay Pride instead? Slay *your own* Pride instead? Now there's a reading of Abraham to turn the story on it's head. A story which has never made any sense to me at all before now, does.

Although a dangerous, roiling sort of sense. A kick-in-the-door, Wake-the-sleepers sort of sense. Perhaps this is what Azahru warns about with Poets and Truth.

Thank you!

[myrthe]

Oh, and while we're at it. *This* for Kierkegaard's Teleological Suspension of the Ethical, too. Nyer!

[heromyk]

Was thinking of going to the Anzac Day service, or to see the parade at least, but needed quiet on that day. Was out and about later, and saw that a lot of people had turned up. Was good to see. And so many comments about the day on the news and elsewhere were constructive, not jingoistic. Thought about a few poems and songs that express the futility and horror of all this, and now have this one to add to the list: hadn't ever read it before. Thanks for that.