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RosieG

Any literature buffs out there familiar with The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge written in 1798?

Several of the more familiar parts of it seem very topical today...to whit

"Day after day, Day after day, We stuck nor breath nor motion
As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean"

"Water water everywhere and all the board did shrink
Water water everywhere nor any drop to drink"

"Ah well a day what evil looks Had I from old and young
Instead of the cross the albatross about my neck was hung"


Any parallels to today? I think the WALL is the albatross ..gubment is the painted ship upon a painted ocean and sea water which is undrinkable is what the boss offers in exchange for his wall.

A stretch you say? Or spot on? I leave that up to you to determine.

Posted - January 22, 2019
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  • A few lines from the same that could apply to the radical Democrats in Congress foolishly shutting down the government:                                               And I had done a Hellish thing  And it would work them woe: For all averred, I had killed the bird that made the breeze to blow  Ah wretch! Said they,  the bird to slay that made the breeze to blow!
      January 22, 2019 7:06 AM MST
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