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Let's recapitulate: I have written a study of Carpaccio, which is bad, a play entitled 'Marriage', which tries to demonstrate something that is false using techniques that are equivocal, and poetry. But oh, poetry achieves so little when it's written early. One should hold off and collect meaning and sweetness for the whole length of a life, a long one if possible, and then, right at the end, one might perhaps be {-}