posted April 20, 1999 05:36 PM
I came across this poem by Walt Whitman, written in 1865 about the horrors of death in the Civil War, I thouhgt it quite touching in light of current events.
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Look Down Fair Moon by Walt Whitman - 1865
Look down fair moon and bathe this scene, Pour softly down night's nimbus floods on faces ghastly, swollen, purple On the dead on their backs with arms toss'd wide, Pour down your unstinted nimbus sacred moon.
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posted April 20, 1999 06:14 PM
And this one by Thomas Hardy.
The Pity of It by Thomas Hardy
I walked in loamy Wessex lanes, afar From rail-track and from highway, and I heard In field and farmstead many an ancient word Of local lineage like "Thu bist," "Er war," "Ich woll," "Er sholl," and by-talk similar, Nigh as they speak who in this month's moon gird At England's very loins, thereunto spurred By gangs whose glory threats and slaughters are.
Then seemed a Heart crying: "Whosoever they be At root and bottom of this, who flung this flame Between kin folk kin tongued even as are we, Sinister, ugly, lurid, be their fame; May their familiars grow to shun their name, And their brood perish everlastingly."
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posted April 20, 1999 09:13 PM
I'll never get a wife anyway but I'll never put any kids on this world. I said it numerous times before but now I'm really certain.
posted April 20, 1999 10:52 PM
Lunatics + firearms + lax school security = Massacre. I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often.
I wonder if this will have a Dunblane-like effect in the US. (In the UK we had a clampdown on handguns, etc.) Rather early to say, but my gut tells me it's not likely.
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posted April 20, 1999 11:28 PM
I need to get my news sources straight. Apparently, these guys are angry at so-called "jocks" and students of racial minorities.
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posted April 21, 1999 01:51 PM
Last I heard, the death toll had been revised down to 15, including the killers. That's at least something, although it's 13 too many.
posted April 22, 1999 08:46 AM
I just hope the amount of attention this is getting doesn't inspire copycat crimes. It was probably a good idea for the Chicago paper to only put the event of page two, so the killers wouldn't be glorified the attention they were seeking.
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