David Jones's Blog, page 1201
July 11, 2013
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The Bar and the Beasts
I had been stranded in my chamber for...
The Bar and the Beasts
I had been stranded in my chamber for years, perhaps even decades. No sickness or physical impediment barred me from the outdoors, only a simple, infinite dread of the outside world. Elevated above the city, I was severed from a life which was not invisible, for I could see them all, some distance below me, milling to and fro, streaming this way and that, through the streets. Such terror was the population, that I gained a faint pleasure at being able to view it, as one...
If by Rudyard Kipling
One of the most powerful poems ever, this.
If by Rudyard Kipling
One of the most powerful poems ever, this.
