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Statues from which used to drip the life-blood of a parasitic cult -
Structures of parabolas from which bleed equations.

In the farrago and conflicts of daily lives, it is a relief to feel such a rapport with finality, in a religious sense, or in a mathematical sense.

As to most of us, the symbols of the infinitesimal calculus humble independent thinking into the conviction that used to be enforced by drops of blood from a statue.

Columns of clouds, differently-colored by sunset, have vibrated to the artillery of other worlds like the strings of a cosmic harp, and I conceive of no buzzing of insects that can forever divert attention from such dramatic reverberations.