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Ambrose Bierce
“The exhilaration of battle was agreeable to him, but the sight of the dead, with their clay faces, blank eyes, and stiff bodies, which, when not unnaturally shrunken, were unnaturally swollen, had always intolerably affected him. He felt toward them a kind of reasonless antipathy which was something more than the physical and spiritual repugnance common to us all. Doubtless this feeling was due to his unusually acute sensibilities - his keen sense of the beautiful, which these hideous things outraged. Whatever may have been the cause, he could not look upon a dead body without a loathing which had in it an element of reselltment. What others have respected as the dignity of death had to him no existence - was altogether unthinkable. Death was a thing to be hated. It was not picturesque, it had no tender and solemn side - a dismal thing, hideous in all its manifestations and suggestions. Lieutenant Byring was a braver man than anybody knew, for nobody knew his horror of that which he was ever ready to encounter. ("A Tough Tussle")”
Ambrose Bierce, Ghost Stories

Guy Davenport
“Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.”
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Guy Davenport
“Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.”
Guy Davenport

Guy Davenport
“How can I shake and dispel the awful reputation of being an "erudite" writer? I’m about as erudite as a traffic cop. I like to know things; what’s so two-headed peculiar about that?”
Guy Davenport

Ludwig Wittgenstein
“11. I am inclined to say: I 'point' in different senses to this body, to its shape, to its colour, etc.--What does that mean?
What does it mean to say I 'hear' in a different sense the piano, its sound, the piece, the player, his fluency? I 'marry', in one sense a woman, in another her money.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Zettel

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