A circle of grey 4


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page 74  A couple of poems from recent years may represent a circle of dull people.   Grey people around me stretch their hands Grey people want me to deny who I am Grey people covered with dust of their cries Grey people, icons of violence and lies
 * — laeri, "Gray People"

  The world is full of grey people, grey people who hold the reins of power, dull people, boring people, fat people, short people, ugly people, lean people. None who excite, none who you admire, none who strike you as efficient, proficient, effective or reflective.
 * — jenray, "The Grey People"

But an excerpt from Ibanez's 1919 book The Dead Command may also represent that:  In the tower he threw himself upon his couch and tried to sleep. All alone! He reflected upon his isolation, surrounded by people who respected him, who, perhaps, even loved him, but at the same time felt in irresistible attraction for their simple pleasures which were insipid to him. — Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, The Dead Command Grey people could also be seen as conformist and easily swayable people, like the sailors who praised the Albatross as if it was their toy and were ready to blame the Ancient Mariner for shooting the lucky omen down, but supported the crime when it seemed to bring good luck, changing their minds again when luck gave them no more golden eggs, blaming the Mariner even more heavily...  sources →  laeri. "Gray People." Web. http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs29/f/2008/052/7/1/Gray_People_by_laeri.html jenray, "The Grey People. Web. http://jenray.blog.co.uk/2011/06/24/the-grey-people-11369174/ Ibáñez, Vicente Blasco. The Dead Command. Trans. Frances Douglas. New York: Duffield & Company, 1919. 195. Print. http://www.archive.org/stream/deadcommand00blasiala#page/194/mode/2up