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I am no prophetand here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid.
— 1915 'The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock' (first published in Poetry magazine, collected in Prufrock and Other Observations, 1917).
I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, whirling in sunlight and darkness. And on the skin of that little grain all the swarms of men, generation by generation, had lived in labour and blindness, with intermittent joy and intermittent lucidity of spirit. And all their history, with its folk-wanderings, its empires, its philosophies, its proud sciences, its social revolutions, its increasing hunger for community, was but a flicker in one day of the lives of the stars.
Olaf Stapledon— Ch.I The Earth, 1. The Starting Point p.11
To show love, [you are taught] to flicker the eyes and this flickering is executed differently dpending on the character
— By Samjukta Panigrahi quoted in "New Theatre Quarterly 55", p.259
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker...
— T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1917)
