Fun, fun, fun till they passed that law...
Posted by Nathaniel Stewart
The AP reports that a new Florida bill would ban suicide as entertainment.
And you thought we were slouching toward Gomorrah.
3:01 PM / October 30, 2003
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I would think that a poet such as yourself would recognize that it is "slouching towards Gomorrah" rather than "toward." While there is no such word as "towards," Robert Bork adapted the title of the book from William Butler Yeatss poem The Second Coming. Apropos to suicide as entertainment, Yeats wrote:
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. . . .
Quite right. Of course, Yeats also wrote:
To a Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine
The flea stands corrected.