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Nathan Otto Siemers (ns14@crux2.crux2.cit.cornell.edu) wrote:
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: 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?
: 

It's from Bladerunner, you just said so...
:-)
Gary Hypes

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.



-- 
Michael Rivero michael%neuron6@jpl-mil.jpl.nasa.gov

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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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.

Yes.  Yes, the word is "Orc" and yes, you are wrong :-) :-)

Actually, the exact quote above might be Elliot, but there's a very similar
one from Blake, plate 11 of "America, a Prophecy":

     Fiery the angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll'd
     Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc;
     . . .

(It was the "Orc" reference that tipped me off.  Had to be either
Blake or Tolkein, and it didn't sound much like JRR, so I rooted around
in William Blakes "Daughters of Albion," "America" and "Europe" until
I found it.  I confess I don't have the complete works of all major writers
memorized.)

-Mujtaba Ghouse
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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.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Michael Rivero michael%neuron6@jpl-mil.jpl.nasa.gov
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   Michael,

       - It comes from something by William Blake, I'm not sure what.
                   Get back to ya Wedndsday.
                                                   RS

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If the word is Orc, I think that the verse should be William Blake's.
Probably from his poem America. Sounds like him as well; Eliot isn't  
as dramatic.

Chua
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