'Schubert heard Beethoven's Fifth Symphony perhaps
four times in his entire life. Which of us today has not heard
it at least twenty?' Jerome Deschusses, The Eighth Night
of Creation (1978) [Well, in France, anyway--.]

Worms eat the page before they eat the page's poet.

'...the future, which--even more than the oceans--serves
us as a universal garbage dump.' --ibid

Edison, Tesla. Like it's any use to be more than 5 years
"ahead of your time"...!

Some rights which could be usefully abridged: the Right to Pollute,
the Right to Have Children You Can't Take Care Of, the Right to
Make Things Nobody Needs. And of course--the Right to Take
More Than Your Share.
   --It'll never happen. We'd push the button first.

When one is joyless, justice becomes much harder to perceive,
even as a direction.

Scurrying through my library of poets, like a rat in a
warehouse full of small appliances.

The moral solitude of believing that compulsory schooling
is as great an evil as slavery--a hundred years before anyone
else does...

M P Shiel (in "The Bride") gives his definition of Love:
"It was a lunacy, its name was Legion, it was possession
by the furies; it was a spasm in the throat, and a sickness of
the limbs, and a yearning of the eye-whites, and a fire in the
marrow; it was catalepsy, trance, apocalypse; it was high as
the galaxy, it was addicted to the gutter; it was Vesuvius, borealis,
the sunset; it was the rainbow in the cesspool, St John plus
Heliogabalus, Beatrice plus Messalina; it was a transfiguration,
and a leprosy, and a metempsychosis, and a neurosis; it was
the dance of the maenads, and the bite of the tarantula, and
baptism in a sun..."