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Re: Fiery the angel.. Blade Runner

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From: Rick Innis
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:27
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In article <1993Jan25.044426.12747@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> michael@neuron6.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael Rivero) writes:
>Nathan Otto Siemers (ns14@crux2.crux2.cit.cornell.edu) wrote:
>: 
>: This one has bugging me for a long time.
>: 
>: Spoken by Rutger Hauer, as Roy in Blade Runner
>: 
>: 
>: 	Fiery the angels fell
>: 	Deep thunder rolled around their shoulders
>: 	Burning with the fires of  (Hawk?  sounds like.)
>: 
>: Anyone know where this comes from?
>: 
>
>  The word is "Orc". I have a vague memory that this was from T.S. Eliott,
>but I'm probably wrong on this.

If the word is Orc, then it could be from Blake's "America: A Vision", which
includes a character of that name.  I don't have my Norton Anthology of
English Lit on hand, but will check it up later (unless someone else beats
me to it.)

	--Rick.
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