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Oneiric Places #4.

"It is important to see that fascism is a disease, as catching as influenza; we all when tired and disillusioned have fascist moments, when belief in human nature vanishes, when we burn with anger and envy like the underdog and the sucker, when we hate the virtuous and despise the weak, when we feel as Goebbels permanently feels, that all fine sentiment is ballyhoo, that we are the dupes of our leaders, and that the masses are evil, to be resisted with the cruelty born of fear. This is the theological sin of despair, a Haw-Haw moment which quickly passes, but which fascism has made permanent, and built up into a philosophy. In every human being there is a Lear and a fool, a hero and a clown who comes on the stage and burlesques his master. He should never be censored, but neither be allowed to rule." --Cyril Connolly, in: Writers of World War II

Christmas Card.

   schooners aloft · scarfed up
   scaffolding made radar
   the redbrick haint's hardball
   still holds its own, jonesing
   Ronin of nine reindeer
   arrested mid-fiddle
on shanksmare one shuffles · into the Big Short
   dimwhizzled, void-whirled

"She wrote an entire book-length poem during and about the events and thoughts she experienced on that particular day."