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04-27-2010, 05:31 PM | #31 |
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I don't know if this was Gyre-Viper's inspiration, but the most notable use of the word gyre is from a poem "The Second Coming" by W.B. Yeats:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? For Yeats a gyre is the representation of the passing of history from one age to the next - represented visually as : The idea is the end of an age is depicted as the widest point of the cone, where the narrowest of the second cone also exists - representing the beginning of the new age. The Second Coming was written shortly after the end of WWI. Taking away the Christian Imagery, the poem speaks to a beginning of a new historic epoch were the old norms/rules are no longer applicable and the belief something terrible (not in the scary sense but in the "big" way) was about to occur. |
04-27-2010, 05:34 PM | #32 |
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JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ-- Juh... sound... GYRE... JIRE... not Guh...
not Guy-er. I don't guy anyone. i am not a guyer. nor am I a guyver. but that would rock. you can LISTEN here. Gyre | Define Gyre at Dictionary.com that way there's no awkward introductions at con when you call me Ghee-ray or Gay-er. but I prefer Goggles. I don't really respond to Gary. JJ's art sucks. I've seen better art in a nursing home. LOL. J+SBSS, love it.
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04-27-2010, 05:39 PM | #33 |
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04-27-2010, 05:41 PM | #34 |
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As soon as i saw "widening Gyre"... I thought you were taking this a whole different direction... |
04-27-2010, 05:41 PM | #35 |
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After Joecon "Widening Gyre" is going to take on a whole new meaning
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04-27-2010, 06:24 PM | #36 |
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Too late. *zips up* Now make yourself scarce before I get out of the shower, Goggles.
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04-27-2010, 06:25 PM | #38 |
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by the time I'm done stripping, they're usually just finishing saying my name. sorry no contest for 10,000 posts. heheehheh. I'll be on the look out for Glumby-esque items and will keep you posted Mr Glumby. the hell have you been?? yes. yes.
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