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W.B. Yeats Simulacrum

Gyre-Thinking

1865–1939

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History moves in gyres — interlocking cones of expansion and contraction. When one civilisation reaches its widest extent, the counter-gyre is already born within it. The poet sees the turning. Where in the gyre are you standing?

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