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Maybe fire is the opposite of light, and comes to the use of those who do not go the way of light. Fire has to consume to give off its light. But light gets its knowledge - and has its intelligence and its being - by going over things without the necessity of eating - the substance of things in the process of purchasing its truth.

Charles Olsen - New York Review of Books Ap.1.76 p33

Wollust ward dem Wurm gegeben

even to a worm ecstacy is granted

Schilles Ode to Joy

5.26.76

"No, I no longer have any great desire to fornicate, at least it is no longer a need, as it was in the hayday of my youth. But I do need to know that if I wanted to I could: do you understand? I mean that a country does not please me unless numerous opportunities for fornication are available. The most beautiful monuments in the world cannot take the place of that; why should I

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not admit quite frankly?"

Andre Giel[?] from Carnets d'Egypte 1939. p856 in A.G reader (when he was age 70)

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...the power of detached appraisement...

...promiscuous human shuffle of New York...

Henry James

To be able to select, out of personal experience, what is really significant, to be able not to corrupt it by afterthoughts, is as rare as imaginative invention...

TS Eliot in prefac to Bubu of Montparnasse - 1932

A man walks carrying with him all the properties of his life, and they chum about in his head. Something he sees awakens them, something else excites them. For our flesh has retained all our memories, and we mingle them with our desires. We pass through the present with all our luggage, and wherever we go, at whatever instant. We are complete.

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