Jan 13
Ghostwriting #1
[Admission: Apparently, my UNIX shell programming skills are too weak to program the little
feature I need to edit to make the future posting thing work. Why can't Movable Type make this automatic? Why even include the menu on the admin panel if you can't use it until you edit via SSH? Grrrrr!! Well, something for me to learn in the next week or so...]crontab
Entry #1 in absentia:
It's too bad that this poem is best known for being in the film, Four Weddings and a Funeral.
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.-- W.H. Auden
It's one of my favorite W.H. Auden poems - the details about the gloves and muffled drum just hit me somewhere in my solar plexus. It's good when a piece of writing does that.
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