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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Tue Mar 2 11:28:57 1993
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 93 11:28:37 -0500
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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cecily (Leanne C Clarke):
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question . . .
Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'
Let us go and make our visit.
In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.
The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-
panes,
The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-
panes
Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening,
Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains,
Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys,
Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap,
And seeing that it was a soft October night,
Curled once about the house, and fell asleep.
And indeed there will be time
For the yellow smoke that slides along the street
Rubbing its back upon the window-panes;
There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet that faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.
In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.
And indeed there will be time
To wonder, 'Do I dare?' and, 'Do I dare?'
Time to turn back and descend the stair,
With a bald spot in the middle of my hair---
[They will say: 'How his hair is growing thin!']
My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin,
My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin---
[They will say: 'But how his arms and legs are thin!']
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
For I have known them all already, known them all---
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?
And I have known the eyes already, known them all---
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,
And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
Then how should I begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?
And how should I presume?
And I have known the arms already, known them all---
Arms that are braceleted and white and bare
[But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!]
Is it perfume from a dress
That makes me so digress?
Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl.
And should I then presume?
And how should I begin?
. . . . .
Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets
And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes
Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows?...
I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floor of silent seas.
. . . . .
And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully!
Smoothed by long fingers,
Asleep . . . tired . . . or it malingers,
Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,
Though I have seen my head [grown slightly bald]
brought in upon a platter,
I am no prophet---and here's no great matter;
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and
snicker,
And in short, I was afraid.
And would it have been worth it, after all,
After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,
Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me,
Would it have been worth while,
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have squeezed the universe into a ball
To roll it towards some overwhelming question,
To say: 'I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all'---
If one, settling a pillow by her head,
Should say: 'That is not what I meant at all.
That is not it, at all.'
And would it have been worth it, after all,
Would it have been worth while,
After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled
streets,
After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that
trail along the floor---
And this, and so much more?---
It is impossible to say just what I mean!
But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns
on a screen:
Would it have been worth while
If one, settling a pillow or throwing off a shawl,
And turning toward the window, should say:
'That is not it at all,
That is not what I meant, at all.'
. . . . .
No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an attendant lord, one that will do
To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,
Deferential, glad to be of use,
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous---
Almost, at times, the Fool.
I grow old . . . I grow old . . .
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the
beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing back the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
---T.S. Eliot
"The Love Song of
J. Alfred Prufrock"
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genenvb (Julie J. Han):
no plan
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hss (Hany S Saleeb):
--> I may also be reached at hss@abp.lcs.mit.edu <-
Succeeding is like a turtle going up a mountain.
Imagination is more important than Knowledge.
Albert Einstein
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kmconger (Keith M. Conger):
1)To finish my thesis.
2)Cause irreperable harm to my body.
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lnixon (Lucia A Nixon):
Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into
a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded...the mountains are
home.
-Annie Dillard
From where I stood it seemed I could see all over this world...and I
like the feel of the wind against me when I get up high.
-Georgia O'Keeffe
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lsc (Lecture Series Committee):
LSC Movies for the week of Mar 5 to Mar 7
Fri. Mar 5 Death Becomes Her [PG-13] 26-100 7 & 10
When Goldie Hawn's fiancee (Bruce Willis) ditches her and marries her
childhood rival (Meryl Streep), her life is all but finished---or is it?
Years later, as the unhappy couple lurches toward old age, she comes
back for revenge with the body of a 20-year-old. Her secret? An elixir
of eternal life. Unfortunately, the potion isn't all that it's cracked
up to be, and neither are Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn, who battle to
the death---and beyond---for the now-pathetic Bruce Willis. This
special-effects extravaganza was directed by Robert Zemeckis.
Fri. Mar 5 Holiday (1938) [???] 10-250 7:30
The second movie in our Grant series has the star, a struggling
attorney, engaged to a spoiled, rich woman. Sibling rivalry erupts
when her unconventional sister (Katharine Hepburn) arrives on the
scene. Like any other Grant-Hepburn film, it's sublime comedy.
Sat. Mar 6 The Rescuers Down Under [G] 26-100 3, 7 & 10
In this sequel to Disney's {\it The Rescuers,\/} the famous duo of
Bernard and Miss Bianca are assigned to rescue a kidnapped Australian
boy named Cody. We follow their adventures through the delightful
Australian terrain in this animated feature.
Sun. Mar 7 West Side Story (1961) [unrated] 26-100 8
Winner of ten Academy Awards, this dynamite musical remains fresh and
vibrant many years after its release. Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer
star in a story about rival gangs in a New York ghetto. The excellent
on-location photography enhances the Romeo and Juliet theme and the
Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim music was innovative and influential
in terms of the history of the Broadway musical. Directed by Robert
Wise and Jerome Robbins. NOTE: One show only, in 26-100.
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owenwess (Owen B Wessling):
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pynadath (David V. Pynadath):
| S | M | TU | W | TH | F | S |
|ST:DS9 |Murphy |Quantum |Homicide|Simpsons|Nothing |ST:TNG|
|Hoops |Exposure|Leap | |Seinfeld| |SNL |
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starflt (Derrick Kong):
Draw Your Own Inference
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Pentagon under terms of the Arms Control and Disarmament Act: "The
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the [deleted] satellites; and a [deleted] which provides [deleted] for
the [deleted].... Using these data, [deleted] can be inferred."
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