Song of Joy - Nick cave
Oh definitelyGollum's Cock wrote:Is the bloke who tells the story also actually the murderer?
Anything more concrete about the demise of Hilda, Hattie and Holly?Big Si wrote:Oh definitelyGollum's Cock wrote:Is the bloke who tells the story also actually the murderer?
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He gives it away in the third verse, when you look back over it:
"farewell happy fields
Where joy forever dwells
Hail horrors hail"
is from Milton's Paradise Lost.
"farewell happy fields
Where joy forever dwells
Hail horrors hail"
is from Milton's Paradise Lost.
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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
'The sun to me is dark and silent as the moon' is also from Milton. This time Samson Agonistes.
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Really? Thanks. I've never read Samson Agonistes, just Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (which I am apparently alone in liking, but that's understandable, I guess. Not nearly as much action).abridged wrote:'The sun to me is dark and silent as the moon' is also from Milton. This time Samson Agonistes.
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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.