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05 May 2003
 

Google listens to your questions. But will it write down any answers? [The Register]
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Some poems :-)

I've managed to dig up a couple of poems. The first is one by WB Yeats that I quite like. The second is one I wrote back in my stormy teens. LOL.

A Drinking Song by WB Yeats

Wine comes in at the mouth

And Love comes in at the eye

That’s all we shall know for truth

Before we grow old and die.

I lift the glass to my mouth,

I look at you, and I sigh.

 

Sight by Gavin Sheridan

To gaze upwards on a crystal morn; an exhibition of sapphire

Blends of azure and pristine white, counterpart of our light.

The sky, a hemisphere of pigments on fire,

Sun being the focus of our sight.

 

Are we not staring through a macrocosm of ourselves, as we see

Via a sphere and the hue of eye, a single source of Life?

We are lying within the perception of another, our day moving

As their sights move, slowly, until sleep.

 

Slumber; our perceiver dreams, closed to the world of externity

What do we observe but the matrix of imagination?

Each celestial fire blazing of fantasy, glimmers of memories and lost Love.

We, quiet watchers of a fantastical spectacle.

 

Did our forerunners have such a notion? The flat surface with circular

Surroundings, wondering what lies beyond our Warmth; Perhaps speculating that we

Are in the eye of One more, ourselves but bystanders

To the energy and will of matter exalted.

 


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What Europe has to do to avoid becoming a US vassal

Simon Tisdall argues that a multipolar world is the third way between resistance and domination.

Blair's argument ignores both history and reality. History suggests sovereign states will rarely voluntarily accept domination by another; even if it is forced upon them, they will always work to defeat or circumvent it. Reality suggests that, to American eyes, partnership only means one thing: leadership. If it is to work, unipolarity assumes disinterested, wise and beneficent leadership in Washington. Observing George Bush, even before Iraq, one can only say: in your dreams, Tony.


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The world won't forgive or forget

Peter Preston is of the opinion that the world won't forgive Blair or Bush for ignoring their opinions.


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De snooker

Sorry for the lack of updates, I have been glued to the snooker. Ken Doherty is playing Mark Williams in the final - its fairly even at the moment.15-14 to Williams. I'm rooting for Ken - he's from Dublin.

Oh and the prize to the winner is £260,000 ($417,000). Not bad for a game of snooker.


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