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Danse macabre, black and white oil painting, remedios varo, james ensor.

"A shatter'd World in wild Disorder tost [tossed],
Leagues, Laws, and Empires in Confusion lost..."

--Rowe's Lucan

The night is darkening round me.

"I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one
but I give myself to it.

I have been circling around God, that primordial tower.
I’ve been circling for thousands of years
and I still don’t know: Am I a falcon,
a storm, or a great song?"

--Joanna Macy's Rilke via

"If the Romans had had nuclear power, we would still be guarding their radioactive waste."