Confessions of a News Junkie

Uh Oh! Today is a revolutionary day on the news junkie blog...I should remind all of the once great "4th Century," ultimately undone by its own greatness :) The blog was set up to bring together a plurality of backgrounds and perspectives from academia...surely the posts were diverse...so much so that ultimately it fell apart amidst squabbling about how to get a discussion going. Today I am leaving the implicit bounds of this blog (perhaps to be condemned by the web mastress ;) I feel like putting up two poems by one of my favorite poets...German Romantic Friedrich Hölderlin. The poems are entitled "Der Ister" and "Die Titanen" (The Ister and The Titans). The Ister is the Greek name for the Danube river, dividing east and west in Europe and connecting the Occident to the Orient mythically. They are printed in Jacket Magazine (different translation than I like, but beggars cannot be choosers). So think Promethean and "Come now fire...!" I am in a Norse-Germanic mood tonight thinking upon fond memories of Nordic countries, languages and friends...as well as the German language, and Viennese art and society with the web mastress herself! So forgive my indulgence...and enjoy!

http://jacketmagazine.com/27/hold-trans-2.html