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"The lens proclaims mendicity but its light comes from the abyss."

"God made everything out of nothing, but the nothing shows through."

– Paul Valéry, Mauvaises Pensées et Autres (1941) via @EverySongIveEve

Square colliding with a circle.

"Respectable feelings and near companies

Companies on a feeling, bowing
   mists and waiting delays
You will lend yourselves knowledge in a
   pail of red
Like a blue bank
The babblers of a powerless Swede
   will lean on
      themselves, believed, appeared

What recurrent sense will that
   be?
You will see your greed
You would be an exercise
You will cry, 'I will long for
   to will wander utterly'
What would the pioneer
   taste without arm to see?
You who will bury your wilderness like
   a great year
Right as pioneer, more right than
   intensity

Muscles would turn
   to sinews
Bang
You will give yourselves hate
   in books of
      nonsense, hate skillful as a muscle
You will be seldom
   good for all that is not full
Whenever you will
   fuck yourselves, paying, heaving,
      near as a muscle.

Such people bears no relation
   to nation, wink, blaze, knight-errant"

--Robot X, 1104

The Love of Myrrhine and Konalis illustrated by Frank Mechau.