Coming Back
Snarkiness is still here. I hope I have gotten over my own snarkiness. It is why I took some time away from here.
I do find it interesting that those who bemoan the loss of civility, are themselves most guilty of non-civility. It isn't just here, it is everywhere.
So go on. Keep being the wonderful epitome of that which you decry in others. I will be there to point it out and make you whine even more.
The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot
Mistah Kurtz - he dead.
A penny for the Old Guy
I
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other kingdom
Remember us - if at all - not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.
II
Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death's dream kingdom
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are
Sunlight on a broken column
There, is a tree swinging
And voices are
In the wind's singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.
Let me be no nearer
In death's dream kingdom
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field
Behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer -
Not that final meeting
In the twilight kingdom
III
This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man's hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.
Is it like this
In death's other kingdom
Waking alone
At the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.
IV
The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms
In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of this tumid river
Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death's twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.
V
Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning.
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but with a whimper.
Hey Steve,
First, Hello old friend.
I never found you to be snarky.. even in a snarky world.
That should make you
“I will be there to point it out and make you whine even more.”
I got a chuckle out of that. I thought you were going soft on us until I got to the punchline. Welcome back.
Glad you got that. LOL.
Welcome back Steve.
No change since you took your sabbatical, same old same old.
Hi, Steve. Welcome back
Dear Friend Steve Ott: Welcome home.
Peace and Abundant Blessings Always.
Enoch.
Welcome back Steve. I'm sorry to say but the country will never be civil again. This is the new America. Doesn't seem so great, huh.
Hey Steve! So glad to see you back with us. You have been sorely missed. I guess I should take some time off from here as well, as I find myself a bit more snarky are times than I like to be. (smile)
As I look at the front page 'marquees' today, It is with shock and stun that I wondered with a gasp if I - even I - have been forced to blend in with the mockers! Alas! I am undone!
Now comes the soul-searching. . . .
You left NT? Dang, I'm always the last person to find stuff out.
Thanks for the welcome back everyone. I don't think I will ever permanently leave until the day I die.
It is difficult at the moment, to get here with any regularity. The company I worked for was bought out about 9 months ago. Then about 3 months ago, the combined companies were bought out. So it has been quite the ride the last few months. We are now the second largest company in the US in litigation support/legal technology. No one has been laid off, and in fact, we are getting more work than ever.
Now if we just get those raises Trump was so proud of.
Good to see you're back, Steve.
“This is the way the world ends”
count me in
as I’m unaccountable4