Digression


Put up a bit of a poem and you get taken apart!

So in reply to postings -

  1. It is not my poem. It is a quotation. Well, nearly. I couldn't remember the original so the English got updated a bit.
  2. "When to the new eyes of thee - All things by immortal power, Near or far, Hiddenly - To each other linked are, That thou canst not stir a flower - Without troubling of a star". From "The Mistress of Vision" by Francis Thompson, a 19th century opium head - and poet. (Thanks to Frank Key for finding it for me again.)
  3. Did Thompson foresee the nature of what was to become the World Wide Web on the Internet 100 years on?
  4. Was my comment some reference to the interlinked nature of the universe and how small events far away can have disproportionate effects on other things, and people (like me).
  5. Do you get the link yet?
  6. Do you care?
  7. Well, why pester me then!
 
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