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References to Yeats' The Second Coming and the BAT (CD spoilers)
Jersey:
--- Quote from: Elegast on January 27, 2013, 10:56:28 PM ---It was already on Wikipedia... :o
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Second_Coming_(poem)&diff=522176648&oldid=521430009
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Well if it's on Wikipedia then it must be true :)
Cenphx:
Thanks for the props! :)
And I know that everyone does multiple rereads of the series, so if anyone comes across other references like these, will you come back here and post them? I will add them into the opening post like I did when marc baggins found the quote for the first reference. I’ll keep an eye out too…
Cyberchihuahua:
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer"
Maeve had stopped listening to Mab, and started listening to Nemesis.
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world"
Sums up Cowl nicely, Nemesis as well.
"The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned"
The Fomor stealing innocent practitioners, those with a magical bloodline.
You could find parallels throughout, but I would also add that Harry has often been referred to as a fulcrum, or "In the center", directing the turn of events.
OZ:
--- Quote from: Jersey on January 27, 2013, 01:52:10 PM ---Either that or Harry read Yeats.
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That was what I thought when I read the end of Storm Front.
wizard nelson:
--- Quote ---"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world"
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actually that should refer to earth and its sphere of reality having anarchy loosed upon it. as we should know if we've been reading our wojs' earth is the center of the dresdenverse. funny choice of words, Mere. like its merely anarchy?
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