Go down to hell. This end is good to see; The breath is lightened and the sense at ease Because thou art not; sense nor breath there is In what thy body was, whose soul shall be Chief nerve of hell's pained heart eternally...
Time lays his finger on thee, saying, "Cease; Here is no room for thee; go down to hell."
Perhaps, if he had continued to commit himself to socialism, he just might have taken up arms to fight agaist the fascist Zionazis who are oppressing the Palestinian peoples as well.
A true hero of the twentieth century. A man whose moral vision and soaring intellect dwarfed the intellectual runts and moral pygmies of our day who so often defile the term "left" by absurdly claiming they are part of it.
From Swinburne's Dirae:
ReplyDeleteGo down to hell. This end is good to see;
The breath is lightened and the sense at ease
Because thou art not; sense nor breath there is
In what thy body was, whose soul shall be
Chief nerve of hell's pained heart eternally...
Time lays his finger on thee, saying, "Cease;
Here is no room for thee; go down to hell."
Amen!
He personally took up arms to fight against the fascist Nazis who were oppressing Europe.
ReplyDeleteWe are all inclined to err in life, and such was Kritol the early Trotskyist's initial mistake to commit to Socialism.
Perhaps, if he had continued to commit himself to socialism, he just might have taken up arms to fight agaist the fascist Zionazis who are oppressing the Palestinian peoples as well.
ReplyDeleteMay His Dear Soul Rest In Peace
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A true hero of the twentieth century. A man whose moral vision and soaring intellect dwarfed the intellectual runts and moral pygmies of our day who so often defile the term "left" by absurdly claiming they are part of it.
The only bit of him that will rest in peace is his Asshole; the bit of him that he spent most of his life talking out of.
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