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The Wrong Kind of American.

      "lynchings tally"

throbbing rattle · in returning shade
   day upon day of fire
my box of words · left back there
   doesn't need me now

"The battlefield is everywhere."

"Of course, as is often the case with potent memetic quotes, this one bears only superficial resemblance to anything that the Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci actually said. What he did write, in his Prison Notebooks essays while he was imprisoned by the Fascist regime in the 1930s, was:

La crisi consiste appunto nel fatto che il vecchio muore e il nuovo non può nascere: in questo interregno si verificano i fenomeni morbosi più svariati.

Which, translated literally into English, gives:

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born: in this interregnum a great variety of morbid phenomena occur." via

"I was given the chance to touch the edge of knowing and experience the unmatched exhilaration of discovering structure in the labryinth of everything."