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Anyone ever read The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" IN ITS ENTIRETY? Written in 1834 a few lines pertain to NOW! Which?

It was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1834 and is VERY VERY VERY long.

But in the rereading here is what jumped out at me as being very descriptive of our NOW


"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 boards did shrink
Water water everywhere
Nor any drop to drink"

The more things change the more they stay the same. Except the RIME is imagination. NOW isn't. Odd how prescient imagination can be almost two hundred years before it manifests itself in reality. Isn't it?

Posted - April 1, 2019

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  • If you try, you could probably glean as much correlation to current events from Coleridge's work as from the gibberish of Nostradamus. I happen to be a fan of Coleridge myself, especially "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", but all I see is a fanciful tale of repentance and redemption after the regrettable act of killing the albatross. But then, art, like beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
      April 1, 2019 6:56 AM MDT
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