The Centre Cannot Hold

The Center Cannot Hold is the blog of Loki.

And as you have almost certainly realised, the title of it derives from W.B. Yeats’ classic poem, The Second Coming. For those of you not familiar with it, the relevant section runs:

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand…

I can’t promise a revelation - but if I hear of one, I’ll be sure to let you know.

It’s divided into several categories:

• The Campaign for Symmetrical English - an attempt to make English make sense, by creating all the words that are logically implied by English but which don’t exist. Until now
• Blessays - long form blog essays (Or ‘Blessays” as Stephen Fry calls them) about all kinds of things.
• Daft Lyrics Database - you know how sometimes you listen to a song, and it seems to make no sense - and then later on, you discover that you misheard the words? This isn’t about that. This is a listing and analysis of all the lyrics that make no bloody sense whatsover even when heard correctly.
  And sometimes, when I feel so inclined, it’s also a place to put filk lyrics. Sorry.
• Militant Agnostic - defending doubt and banishing certainty from both the deist and the atheist.
• Crossing Over - the great chain of crossovers between various fictional worlds, primarily from a roleplaying point of view.
• Fresh Fictions - original fiction, usually set in either Teleran or the Lokiverse.
• 1001 Afterlives to Visit After You Die - the next logical step after all those books of 1001 whatevers to experience before you die.
• Station Keeping - assorted maintenance and changes news. Used only when needed.

I’m always happen to entertain suggestions for topics you’d like to see covered in The Campaign for Symmetrical English, Daft Lyrics Database or Crossing Over. If there’s a word, a song or a crossover you’d particularly enjoy watching me tackle, by all means let me know.