Name

Indignant Desert Birds

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We, the Indignant Desert Birds, at the twilight of Western Civilization, observe the culture of the Spiritus Mundi from the electric lines of the world. We invite you to watch and learn with us as mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, and we reel its shadows.

Our inspiration below.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold…

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man…
…while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
--William Butler Yeats (1919)

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