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Survey of recent verse novels.

"It [Love] 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..." --M P Shiel

Part of the Adventure.

helicopters
& hospital windows
contempt for stupidity
even in the stupid
the mail comes early
the blaze is less than yesterday

these in-between places
are all we have left

keep a caged thing
for an outside reference

La Notte. (with subtitles) ☆☆☆☆