Give me Stalin and Saint Paul . . .
Roland Elliott Brown, writing for The Spectator of the 12th September 2015, reports in "The caravanserai of the motor age" on the Soviet Union's "whacky bus shelters," like the one above, which is so horrible, it's even more horrible than it actually is! This dove - possibly even a 'pig eon' - has such powerful wings that it reminds me of Milton's lines to the Divine Spirit in the first few lines of Paradise Lost, Book One:
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thou from the firstYes. Right. The vast abyss of the Soviet Union. Got it knocked up. Or out. But don't you sort of miss the Soviet Union, over what we've got now? Give me back the Berlin Wall.
Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread
Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss
And mad'st it pregnant:
But no, we have to muddle on toward The Future . . .
Labels: Dark Humor, Leonard Cohen
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 3:56 AM
2 comments
2 Comments:
Not very pretty, Yes, but as the saying goes, "Any port(sic. Shelter) in a storm". I like your allusion to Milton, and the actual book review was interesting as well.
Jay
I chose the ugliest bus stop for effect.
Jeffery Hodges
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