Because & Affect & the Age of Reasons Why

 
Why Study Literature?
 
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those
words out When a vast image out of
Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight:
somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the
head of a man, A gaze blank and p
pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow
thighs, while all about it Reel shadows
of the indignant desert birds.The
darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking
cradle, And what rough beast, its hour
come round at last, Slouches towards
 Bethlehem to be born? 
       (W.B. Yeats. “The Second Coming”)
 
Apocalyptic: opening,  unfolding,  
                      exposing, uncovering
                            revealing
 
Apology:  the “logic” or words of
                 (explaining) the opening,       
                 uncovering, unfolding,
                 exposing,
 
Anyone might could wonder why and then
guess how-it-is  “apology” shifted in
connotation from look-at-what-happened
            to Sorry, I’m so sorry.
 
   Because & Affect in the Age of
              Reasons Why
 
FaceBook enabled the revolution going-on
which a Tunisian slap in the face ignited..
 
Shifting tectonic plates refocused attention
efficiency from middle to far east  and under
water oil plumes past concern are demoted
to attention deficiency  in the public I.
 
Obama: “passive, weak-willed and spineless”
accuse some pundits; others worry about his
stand on guns, education, unions & nuclear
power plant proliferation.
 
Wellness people Sustainability & Environed
mentalists wonder what Gaia is telling us while
others take socio-pathetic pleasure in the irony
of Mother Nature and the vanity of human wishes.  
   
                                         HAP
               
 
HAP & the Ways we Talk about HAP on the
one hand.
 
Ways we Talk About  ways we talk about
Hap on the other hand.
 
Sound of 2 hands clapping:  academic
multitasking. .