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@@ -501,6 +501,90 @@ The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (Spanish: El sueño de la razón produce m
 
 [Ilse Koch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilse_Koch), also known as The Witch of Buchenwald.
 
+Dear Sir,<br/>
+I [am in a Madhouse and] quite forget your Name <br/>
+or who you are You must excuse me [for] I have nothing<br/>
+to commu(n)icate [or tell of] and why I am shut up<br/>
+[I dont know] I have nothing [to say so] I conclude.<br/>
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+[Yours respectfully,]<br/>
+John Clare (To James Hipkins, 1860)
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+Though Dante claims to have seen Beatrice no more than twice himself. While immortalizing her even more extraordinarily.
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+Conrad Aiken's father shot his wife and then himself. Leaving it to Aiken, at eleven, to climb a flight of stairs after hearing the shots and walk in on the bodies.
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+"Der Tod und das Mädchen", "Death and the Maiden"
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+Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
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+It is impossible for man's happiness to be in this world. Said Aquinas.
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+[L'Origine du monde (The Origin of the World)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'Origine_du_monde)
+![The Origin of the World](/img/snippets/Origin-of-the-World.jpg)
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+[Paideia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paideia)
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+Pietro Torrigiano took a hammer to a Madonna he had sculpted in Seville when he was not paid what he anticipated. And was jailed by the Inquisition for sacrilege.
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+[By Grand Canal Station I Sat Down and Wept](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By_Grand_Central_Station_I_Sat_Down_and_Wept)
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+In a lawsuit that prevented him from teaching in New York in 1940, Bertrand Russell's writings were described as lecherous, libidinous, lustful, venerous, erotomaniac, aphrodisiac, irreverent, narrow-minded, untruthful, and bereft of moral fiber. Unquote.
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+[Vachel_Lindsay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vachel_Lindsay) founder of singing poetry committed suicide.
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+Why do you always wear black?<br/>
+I am in mourning for my life. -Anton Chekhov
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+ipse dixit: he said
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+The first edition of Thus Spoke Zarathustra sold forty copies. Nietzsche had had to pay for publication.
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+I had been only a mediocre caretaker of most of the things left in my hands, even of my talent, Scott Fitzgerald said.
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+That nearby, Protagonist awakening mornings to the wash of the surf?</br>
+Mitigating, will it, the mornings recollection of the emptiness of the day before?<br/>
+Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come?
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+was willst du, fremder Mensch: what do you want, stranger
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+Les Nuits d'Été: the summer nights
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+I am old, and can no longer work, and am without means of livelihood, and my wife is ill.
+Said Paolo Uccello on a tax declaration in Florence in 1469.
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+un grand peut-être: a grand maybe 
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+Cavafy, acknowledged as the great Greek poet of his time. Who lived his entire writing life in Egypt.
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+o che dolce cosa é questa prospettiva: or what a sweet thing this prospect is
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+potestas clavium: the power of the keys
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+Y la vida no es noble, ni buena, ni sagrada: And life is not noble, nor good, nor sacred
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+A Christ of our neighbourhood, Ortega called Don Quixote.
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+Did Jesus ever laugh?
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+But I was desolate and sick of an old passion
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+Shakespeare's mother and father were illiterate. And only one of his two daughters, Susanna, could sign her name. The other, Judith, made a mark.
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+Did it ever, once, enter even Protagonist's bleakest conjecturings that he would finish out his life alone?
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+No survivor could ever recall having ever seen a single bird flying near any of the Nazi death camps.
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+Toward what final grievous contemplation amid the disarray?
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+In the end one experiences only one's self.
+Said Nietzsche.
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+Nonlinear. Discontinuous. Collage-like. An assemblage.
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+Wastebasket.
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 "Thinking can hurt your chances, and I want to last". From the Handmaid's Tale
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+I Know the Truth
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+I know the truth—give up all other truths!<br />
+No need for people anywhere on earth to struggle.<br />
+Look—it is evening, look, it is nearly night:<br />
+what do you speak of, poets, lovers, generals?<br />
+<br />
+The wind is level now, the earth is wet with dew,<br />
+the storm of stars in the sky will turn to quiet.<br />
+And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we<br />
+who never let each other sleep above it.<br />
+"I know the truth" Tsvetaeva (1915). 
Trans. by Elaine Feinstein
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 ["Trees" (1913)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trees_(poem))
 
 I think that I shall never see