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Current Events » in reply to re: I hope you're right...

Great poem. Thanks.

ER — 9/15/2008 6:07:35 PM (archived)

I am familiar with two phrases of it, lifted from other contexts,

"Things fall apart" and "the centre cannot hold"

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What a calamity building at election time - JEKing - 9/12/2008 11:58:15 PM
- Food for thought, and seems to validate what ER said earlier. - Bowser - 9/13/2008 2:24:09 AM
- If the article is close to accurate, then I hope the Democrats lose. - ER - 9/13/2008 12:40:54 AM
  - Those who don't heed history are doomed to repeat it! - Eri - 9/13/2008 5:48:25 AM
    - ...doomed to repeat, doomed to repeat, doomed to repeat... - ER - 9/13/2008 11:20:53 AM
      - re: ...doomed to repeat, doomed to repeat, doomed to repeat... - JEKing - 9/13/2008 4:17:14 PM
        
        re: ...doomed to repeat, doomed to repeat, doomed to repeat... - ER - 9/13/2008 5:37:56 PM
        
        machinations - JEKing - 9/13/2008 6:54:17 PM
        
        I hope you're right... - ER - 9/13/2008 7:14:58 PM
        
        re: I hope you're right... - JEKing - 9/14/2008 8:11:54 PM
        
        Great poem. Thanks. - ER - 9/15/2008 6:07:35 PM
- If that article is close to accurate... - Eri - 9/13/2008 12:34:55 AM
  - It isn't. - TB - 9/13/2008 7:11:32 PM
    - Heh, heh. Sort of like the GOP. - Bowser - 9/13/2008 8:44:07 PM

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