Archive for January 15th, 2001

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Monday, January 15th, 2001

Jan 2, 10:29 p.m.: "beautiful lofty things" — the title of a poem by Yeats. "Everyone's tired of my uproar" — cf. Robert Lowell, "everyone is tired of my turmoil."

Jan 4, 12:12 a.m.: "don't know when I'll be back again" — Peter, Paul and Mary, "Leaving on a Jet Plane."

Jan 5, 12:09 p.m.: various passages from Exodus and Leviticus, and traditional responsorial from Seder.

Jan 6, 1:27 a.m.: "what is past, or passing, or to come" — Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium."

Jan 7, 7:58 p.m.: "here I go, once again" — Sylvia Tyson, "River Road."

Jan 8, 8:09 a.m.: "will you walk out of the air, my lord" — Hamlet, Polonius to Hamlet.

Jan 9, 4:07 p.m.: "everywhere I look there's a dead end waiting" — Beck, "Devil's Haircut." "Life, friends, is boring" — John Berryman, Dream Songs.

Jan 11, 11:43 p.m.: "love doth oft in thousand monstrous forms appear" — Spenser, Faerie Queene.

Jan 14, 1:59 p.m.: "love is all and love is everyone" — The Beatles, "Tomorrow Never Knows." 11:27 p.m.: "summertime scholars" — I was (obviously) thinking of Thomas Paine, The American Crisis no.1, "the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot."