Tuesdays with Morrie

I hope you all enjoyed the movie on Sunday. We will finish the movie after we get back from the retreat. I'd like to invite everyone to post a comment about the movie - good or bad.

Below is the last two stanza from the poem "September 1st, 1939" by W.H. Auden - he wrote this poem when he heard of Germany's invasion of Poland heralding the start of WWII. Do you recognize some of the lines from the movie?


All I have is a voice
To undo the folded lie,
The romantic lie in the brain
Of the sensual man-in-the-street
And the lie of Authority
Whose buildings grope the sky:
There is no such thing as the State
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die.

Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.