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“The boy and eternity, two friends, the sky cloudless and unending.”

The history of the centuries in this valley is the history of an independent man who grapples barehanded with a spectre which bears a new and ever newer name.

On pause to avoid spoilers.

“The material texture of reality becomes the ground that allows aesthetic effects.”

“Stop picking around the edges of the world. Take advantage, and if you can’t take advantage, take disadvantage. We live here.”

Cars are real ! Eternity is done.
The threat of Nothingness renews.

Must I settle into phantomness
and not say I understand things better than God?

“I made small talk on the pier, about the weather, about the kids, as I stood there, in my bathing suit, alone among the married couples, wanting to die.”

“I felt, in my bones, an acceptance of men behaving badly, a value in not calling them out, in protecting a man’s belief in his own importance, and a premium placed on keeping such things private.”

Democracy
“The flag goes with the foul landscape, and our jargon muffles the drum…
Farewell here, no matter where. Conscripts of good will, ours will be a ferocious philosophy; ignorant as to science, rabid for comfort; and let the rest of the world croak. This is the real advance. Marching orders, let’s go!”

(!!!)

“Magic flowers droned. The slopes cradled him. Beasts of fabulous elegance moved about. The clouds gathered over the high sea, formed of an eternity of hot tears.”

“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.”

“She likes to cut things up, to scrub and have things tidy, and to call things what they are.”

“This eternal art will have its function since poets are citizens. Poetry will no longer accompany action but will lead it.”

“I witness the birth of my thought: I look at it, I listen to it: I give a stroke of the bow: the symphony begins to stir in the depths or comes bursting onto the stage.”

…for work

“Whatever you want the most, it’s going to be the worst thing for you.”