"Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty."
--Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace, 1947
"Memoriter
Ovals of opal on dislustred seas,
Skyshine, and all that indolent afternoon
No clash of arms, no shouting on the breeze;
Only the reeds moaned soft or high their empty rune.
The paladins played chess and did not care,
The crocus pierced the turf with random dart.
Then twanged a cord. Through space, from Oultremer
That other arrow veered toward your heart."
--Charles Spear
Sidewalks and Skeletons live in 2015.
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