“What are the bugles blowin' for?” said Files-on-Parade.
“To turn you out, to turn you out”, the Colour-Sergeant said.
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Danny Deever, Stanza 1.Rudyard Kipling
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To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time for every purpose under heaven.Pete Seeger
Seriously. UFO organisations have been contracting of late, because no-one's seeing flying saucers any more. They turn up at weird cultural stress points, like an approaching millennium (which the X-Files lucked into, rather than caused). Almost, it seems, when the culture is worried about something amorphous rather than concrete (like terrorism). The 90s UFO "glut" coincided with the threat of nuclear war fading, relative political stability in the US and UK, and yet the feeling that the turn of the century Meant Something that we couldn't put into words. I almost miss flying saucers: because they might mean that we don't have anything serious to worry about.
Warren Ellis
Piety is not an end but a means to attain ... the highest degree of culture. This is why ... those who parade piety as a purpose and an aim mostly turn into hypocrites
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You got me blowin, blowin my mind,
Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?Jimi Hendrix
But I will turn my eyes from you
As women turn to put away
The jewels they have worn at night
And cannot wear in sober day.Sara Teasdale
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