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'Be secret, be strange ... Our dawn shall come.'

Posted by diogenes on 2024-August-26 15:42:12, Monday
Reminded today of these lines from Penda's Fen (1974), surely one of Britain's greatest ever films. Throughout the film, Stephen, our young protagonist, has been gradually realising that he is unable to conform to his society; that he must needs be an alien in the modern world. From out of the past, King Stephen speaks to our protagonist the following words:

Night is falling; your land and mine
go down into a darkness now,
and I and all the other guardians of her flame
are driven from our home,
up, out into the wolf’s jaw.

But the flame still flickers in the fens.
You are marked down to cherish that.
Cherish the flame
until we can safely wake again.

The flame is in your hand;
we trust it to you,
our sacred demon of ungovernableness.

Be secret, be strange,
dark, true, impure and dissonant.
Cherish our flame.
Our dawn shall come.

diogenes
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