I met a traveller from a distant shireThere's a whole bunch more in the comments, and very clever they are.
Who said: A vast and pointless shaft of steel
Stands on a hill top… Near it, in the mire,
Half sunk, a shattered turbine lies, whose wheels
And riven blades and snarls of coloured wire
Tell that its owners well their mission read
Which did not last nor, nowhere to be seen,
The hand that paid them and the empty head.
And scrawled around the base these lines are clear:
‘My name is Millibandias, greenest Green.
Look on my works, ye doubters, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round this display
Of reckless cost and loss, blotless and fair,
The green and pleasant landscape rolls away.
The parody, of course, is of Ozymandias, seen previously here. The shattered wreckage is from this:
Quality snark, yessiree. Get ye hence, for more snark like this:
I wandered lonely as a cloudHeh. Gilbert and Sullivan fans should also look here. Double heh.
That floats on high o'er vales and hills
When all at once I saw a crowd
A host, of turbine windy mills
Beside the lake, but far from trees
Towers stilled by lack of breeze
3 comments:
Ha! I liked the comments, and I had forgotten how cool that video was. There's a wind farm on the prarie northwest of here that we explored one weekend - those mills are pretty awesome up close. Its hard to get scale from a distance. The individual blades on the ones we saw are as long as a semi-trailer! I'd hate to be anywhere near them if they flew all to pieces like the one in the film.
Windpower usually looks idyllic and peaceful in "green" advertising. They can make a hell of a racket up close, though. Constant whine and whirr of the generators kinda bores into your brain.
And on the opposite side of the spectrum, there's all the windmills that froze up in Minnesota.
That's brilliant!! Maybe there's hope yet for Blighty.
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