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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
About @Hand-of-Hecate

[b]"Dear Grampy Bobby,

I hope you get savagely gang raped by syphilitic KKK bikers. Stop posting my profile you aggravating skid mark.

Thanks & regards."[/b]

Originally posted by josephw
I think because it is cryptic. I can't find a purpose in the concept of performing affections with ceremony. The whole thing is lost on me. Why would I ceremoniously perform affections patiently because I know there's an end? What end? I'm confused! 😕 😉

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
"We perform all of the affections with a ceremony of more than patience knowing that presently there is an end."
(Paraphrased from William S. Merwin's Canos, 1952)

"O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!" ~Walter Scott

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
"O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!" ~Walter Scott

Originally posted by FMF
Presumably Grampy Bobby hopes that a bit of the pretentiousness will rub off on him and that you to concede that you are "lost" or "confused". 😉

John 15:13, "Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends."

"Let's roll..." ~Todd Beamer

September 1, 2001........................ .

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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
September 1, 2001

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
John 15:13, "Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends."

"Let's roll..." ~Todd Beamer

September 1, 2001........................ .

"I have measured out my life in coffee spoons"

Footnote: "Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is difficult to interpret since it presents the thoughts of a person during a time interval. The reader only gets glimpses of the narrator's mind through his monologue - scattered clues of his character. Nevertheless, it is impossible to say for sure whether what he says are meant to be taken literally or figuratively.

Be that as it may, there are some things we can know about the narrator. He is a balding, middle-aged man who has lived a boring, mediocre life. He displays inadequacy and disillusionment with society, and a overwhelming fear and insecurity about his situation.

The line "I have measured out my life in coffee spoons" puts the narrator's life in perspective. Even he realizes how little his life amounts to, that it could be measured in tiny coffee spoons habitually used in everyday life. He is aware of how to be happy, but doesn't pursue it for fear of change and rejection. And I think it's a feeling we can all identify with at some point in our lives."

https://www.quora.com/What-did-T-S-Eliot-mean-when-he-wrote-in-The-Love-Song-of-J-Alfred-Prufrock-I-have-measured-out-my-life-in-coffee-spoons

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
The line "I have measured out my life in coffee spoons" puts the narrator's life in perspective. Even he realizes how little his life amounts to, that it could be measured in tiny coffee spoons habitually used in everyday life. He is aware of how to be happy, but doesn't pursue it for fear of change and rejection. And I think it's a feeling we can all identify with at some point in our lives."

Originally posted by HandyAndy
In the UK I think they use teaspoons.

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