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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica

Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.

Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors


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28.1.03



...by the guttering hearth, a ring of somber-gabardined grandpas

plays dominoes. Their stubble picks up the flicker like filaments

still waiting for the bulb or the phone to be invented. Even their

coughs, their phlegms, are in an older language. They move...

from A History of Civilization
the Miltonic Albert Goldbarth
in Poetry Daily January 28, 2003

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