Eliot is making a reference to the prologue of the Canterbury Tales when he calls April the cruelest month. Chaucer describes April in terms describing rebirth....the characters in the prologue are about to set off for a pilgrimage. There is a deep sense of faith in the prologue to the Canterbury Ta...
[s] Humphrey wrote on 03:02, 25th Feb 2005: Ah fantastic, another innocuous conversation turns into an exchange of personal insults. What the heck is the Mitre anyway, looks like a more right wing version of my parish magazine. [hr]http://www.livejournal.com/users/humphrey_clarke/ Haa haa. I love it...
[s] Prophet Tenebrae wrote on 23:14, 15th Jun 2004: They're actually siamese twins - they spend millions in every film using airbrushing to make them appear like they aren't conjoined at the vagina. [hr]Ah, I hate how nothing changes. Such a peaceful Earth should just collapse... Conjoined at the va...
[s] Mr Comedy wrote on 22:57, 15th Jun 2004: Lindsay Lohan. But the most exciting thing for me is that Mary-Kate and Ashley (Olsen) are now 18, and have been since Sunday. Hoorah! I know! They are finally legal! Now men (and some women) don't have to feel guilty about lusting after those two anymore...
[s] Marco Biagi wrote on 17:01, 28th May 2004: [s] Anon. wrote on 23:12, 27th May 2004: [i] I've never been in love, but I would imagine that however wonderful it might be, it would also be [i]extremely inconvenient. [/i] Oh believe me, inconvenient doesn't even begin to describe it. [/i] So true.
[s] Unregisted User The Truth. wrote on 15:56, 24th May 2004: ACTUALLY, George W Bush WON the Popular VOTE. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0876793.html Yes. He Won Florida. And also the total. The votes that were contested in Florida have nothing to do with the popular vote, but with the Electoral C...
[s] Cain wrote on 19:28, 21st May 2004: But rarely will you see rantings put together so well... http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/cold_turkey/ Kurt Vonnegut is the man! He taught at my home University a few years back and everyone was slightly scared of him. He really is an old curmudge...
Let's not turn this into an argument about religion. I know many American Christians who are accepting of homosexuality, or at the very least, would not advocate violence like Rev. Fred Phelps does. This has nothing to do with religion really, this is about hate, pure and simple.