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April 08, 2006
Time up
April 8, 2006 at 09:01 AM | Permalink
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My father, a nonblogging old-school anesthesiologist, used to say the same thing:
"Let us go then, you and I, to where the sun is spread against the sky....like a patient aetherized upon a table...."
I mashed together our Montana high-wide-and-handsome sunsets with his day job....made perfect sense to me then.
Posted by: Mb | Apr 8, 2006 7:23:01 PM
Thanks, Shawn -- you inspired me to go read old Prufrock again.
May your son not only figure out what, but why.
Posted by: Flutist | Apr 8, 2006 4:39:43 PM
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
~ T.S. Eliot
And, of course, from my very favorite poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock":
...
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
...
Every morning, when I am getting ready to walk out the door with my son and bring him to school, I say, "Let us go then, you and I..." in a somber voice, like I'm reciting the poem. I'm looking forward to the day when he reads it somewhere, by accident, and figures out what I've been reciting all along.
Posted by: Shawn Lea | Apr 8, 2006 12:13:24 PM
Up, time. (Sorta works, if you think of "Time" being commanded or invited to move up.)
Posted by: Mb | Apr 8, 2006 10:04:41 AM
good.
i was getting bored.
Posted by: AE | Apr 8, 2006 9:35:21 AM
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