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March 4, 2010
If I were fool enough to take a cruise...
I'd rather be stuck in ice than facing freak 25 foot waves. Though I would generally prefer the Mediterranean to the Baltic, I have my standards.
An early sign of my interest in the apocalyptic genre is that I chose to memorize Robert Frost's "Fire and Ice" for a fifth or sixth grade assignment.
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Maybe I memorized it because I'd heard of the poet and it was short - but I think I was responding to ideas of the end of the world. And from what I've tasted of desire I flip back and forth between fire and ice. Why I thought that was the way things were when I was 11, I don't remember.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at March 4, 2010 10:06 PM