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... light in the vast night of the soul . " He struggles to achieve not the French sense of la belle clarté , not clarity for its own sake , but for " limpidity . " He says of this struggle , " What I mean by limpidity is that behind a ...
... light in the vast night of the soul . " He struggles to achieve not the French sense of la belle clarté , not clarity for its own sake , but for " limpidity . " He says of this struggle , " What I mean by limpidity is that behind a ...
Page 101
... light . a lugubrious , lascivious clatter of heels , time splits open : beneath a sky of soot the flash of a skirt . C'est la mort - ou la morte The indifferent wind rips posters from the walls . At this hour , the red walls of San ...
... light . a lugubrious , lascivious clatter of heels , time splits open : beneath a sky of soot the flash of a skirt . C'est la mort - ou la morte The indifferent wind rips posters from the walls . At this hour , the red walls of San ...
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... light verse may be approaching extinction . André Malraux observed that American literature was being produced by non - intellectuals . In fact , most of our poetry which masquerades as lyric is , in truth , light verse in open form ...
... light verse may be approaching extinction . André Malraux observed that American literature was being produced by non - intellectuals . In fact , most of our poetry which masquerades as lyric is , in truth , light verse in open form ...
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Orthodox Heterodox Paradox | 15 |
The Degradation of Money | 27 |
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