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To: RumKola who wrote (89)	4/8/1998 5:28:00 PM
From: Achilles	Read Replies (1) of 253

The lines are from Leonard Cohen's song 'The Future' on an Album of the same name. It is, you will forgive some lit-crit clap-trap, an expression of post-modern angst: in the aftermath of the fall of communism and the disappearance of Christianity as a viable philosophy of life, the poet feels rudderless and looks back with longing on an age when life's choices were simpler and in which the future, even if apocalyptic, was preferable to the future that we now have. The past was bad; the future is worse. From the same song: Give me back the Berlin Wall give me Stalin and St. Paul Give me Christ or give me Hiroshima Destroy another fetus now We don't like children anyhow I've seen the future baby: it is murder. Kinda depressing, eh?

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