His firm stanzas hang like hives in hell
Or what hell was, since now both heaven and hell
Are one, and here, O terra infidel.
Wallace Stevens, Esthétique du Mal (1944)
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16 July 2015
Hives in hell
28 August 2010
Logical lunacy
Victor Serge said, "I followed his argument
With the blank uneasiness which one might feel
In the presence of a logical lunatic."
He said it of Konstantinov. Revolution
Is the affair of logical lunatics.
The politics of emotion must appear
To be an intellectual structure. The cause
Creates a logic not to be distinguished
From lunacy.
Wallace Stevens, Esthétique du mal, part xiv
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