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"The young people who would have been most likely to lead the domestic anti-fascist fight in 2025."

hollow & humiliating praise
for the giver of rings in the giver's last feeble days

Self-portrait as the Allegory of Painting.

“What were all these great poets of whom we now talk so much, what were they in their lifetime? The most miserable of their species. Depressed, doubtful, obscure, or involved in petty quarrels and petty precautions, often unappreciated, utterly uninfluential, beggars, flatterers of men unworthy even of their recognition–what a train of disgustful incidents, what a record of degrading circumstances is the life of a great poet? A man of great energies aspires that they should be felt in his lifetime, that his existence should be rendered more intensely vital by the constant consciousness of his multiplied and multiplying power. Is posthumous fame a substitute for all this? Viewed in every light and under every feeling, it is alike a mockery.” –Contarini Fleming

Moog live.