The Hollow Men by T. S. Eliot. The full 17-minute video is available on the Complete Dossier of Apocalypse Now, this version, for better and worse, has the musical bits cut out.
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This is Binary Bonsai, the online journal of Michael Heilemann — a Danish expat Interface Director at Squarespace, ex-Computer Game Developer and Film Lover — coming to you out of New York. It contains thoughts on games, interface design, movies, books, science fiction, Star Wars and various other subjects as befits the author, who is available for comment on Twitter.
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This is undoubtedly the most influential poem in my life. I once wrote an entire article on how it’s meaning relates to the modern day world. I didn’t realise Apocalypse Now used it, guess I’ll have to pick up the DVD.