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apophenia: the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness in unrelated things; seeing patterns where none, in fact, exist

If you are like me, you love "Futurama". This morning I was checking out several excellent panoramas compiled from multiple screen grabs from "Futurama" episodes at punkasspunk.com.

"Cool. What else has this guy got?" I wondered.

Browsing around, I find "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot. I'm not a poetry guy, really, but this poem has always resonated for me. It reminded me that my favorite Eliot poem, however, is "The Hollow Men."

When I get to the fifth part

Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning.

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow

For Thine is the Kingdom

Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow

Life is very long

Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom

For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

I get goosebumps all over.