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What Auden Said
Mike. Su and Sej came to the Meeting House yesterday. i wasn't sure how our elderly Quakers would react to a baby showing up- something that hasn't happened in years- but I needn't have worried because they thought it the most wonderful fun. Sej picks up on atmospheres, I think. Just as he got squirmy and fretful in the atmosphere of the vets- all that animal anxiety and pain- so he remained quiet and happy in the loving atmosphere of the Meeting House. We didn't take him into the meeting room itself. Instead I had him on my knee in the library- sitting with Elizabeth who is ninety and finds it painful to sit on a hard chair for the full hour. She sang "Tea for Two" and did a little shimmy for him. Sej flirted back because he loves the ladies...
The weather has turned cold and I wore one of my topis. Mags asked if I was doing it in solidarity with the Palestinians and I said it hadn't crossed my mind. I have said nothing here about the Middle-eastern war- the latest one I mean (because there are others going on in the region the western media largely ignores)- and don't intend to. I won't take sides. The roots of this thing go back thousands of years- and now as then and then and then atrocity answers atrocity...
In Auden's words, written at he very beginning the the Second World War, which he backed away from later because he came to find them naive and unrealistic, though they're not, they're not, they're not- "We must love one another or die."
The weather has turned cold and I wore one of my topis. Mags asked if I was doing it in solidarity with the Palestinians and I said it hadn't crossed my mind. I have said nothing here about the Middle-eastern war- the latest one I mean (because there are others going on in the region the western media largely ignores)- and don't intend to. I won't take sides. The roots of this thing go back thousands of years- and now as then and then and then atrocity answers atrocity...
In Auden's words, written at he very beginning the the Second World War, which he backed away from later because he came to find them naive and unrealistic, though they're not, they're not, they're not- "We must love one another or die."
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