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"I don’t remember how the conversation began; she declared in no uncertain terms that one thing alone mattered in the world today: the Revolution that would feed all the people on earth. I retorted, no less peremptorily, that the problem was not to make men happy, but to find a meaning for their existence. She looked me up and down: 'It is easy to see you have never gone hungry,' she said."

"returning home
from open ocean
a wanderer--
the wingspan shadow
of an albatross"

--an'ya

"The beauty of Venice...caused Jaffier to make the tough choice not to destroy the city." (--Hiroshima, not Kyoto.)

"Seminated the night, as though
there could be others, more nocturnal than
this one."

--Hamburger's Celan

"Her vintager’s (grape-gatherer) hat was presented to Ashford Borough Council by Monsieur Eugène Fleuré, a member of the Association for the Study of the Thoughts of Simone Weil, during the official naming of Simone Weil Avenue in Ashford on Friday, 8th July, 1983. The hat is now on permanent display at the Civic Centre in Tannery Lane."