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Page 138
... continuous . QLIPPOTH IN LOVE Drawing heavily on the death and wasteland images of Conrad and Eliot , an ironic appreciation of sacraments , and the intellectual's dis- affection for the banalities of business , government , and social ...
... continuous . QLIPPOTH IN LOVE Drawing heavily on the death and wasteland images of Conrad and Eliot , an ironic appreciation of sacraments , and the intellectual's dis- affection for the banalities of business , government , and social ...
Page 140
... continuous , that they are functions of each other . Entropy may increase toward death but it is also the of life . process V.'s thematic and structural complexities tend to obscure the un- derlying simplicity of its single great melody ...
... continuous , that they are functions of each other . Entropy may increase toward death but it is also the of life . process V.'s thematic and structural complexities tend to obscure the un- derlying simplicity of its single great melody ...
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... the Rocket that will permit him , like Rilke's angels , to be at home in the continuous regions of life and death . Before the launch , " he is now always the same , awake or asleep - he never leaves the DEATH TRANSFIGURED 159.
... the Rocket that will permit him , like Rilke's angels , to be at home in the continuous regions of life and death . Before the launch , " he is now always the same , awake or asleep - he never leaves the DEATH TRANSFIGURED 159.
Contents
Baedeker Land | 65 |
Death Transfigured | 135 |
In Which Various Things Come Together | 187 |
Copyright | |
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