“A final splash plops … all water-movement ceases and the screen is a black velvet void.”

Source: Great Jones Street (1974), Ch. 15

A Tragedy, reported by several critics to be the worst poem published in the English language. http://www.reedleycollege.edu/academic/Departments/CompLitComm/sbowie/Tragedy.htm.

Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 23

Section 56
The True Believer (1951), Part Three: United Action and Self-Sacrifice
Context: The readiness for self-sacrifice is contingent on an imperviousness to the realities of life.... For self-sacrifice is an unreasonable act.... All active mass movements strive, therefore, to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world.... by claiming that the ultimate and absolute truth is already embodied in their doctrine and that there is no truth nor certitude outside it.... To rely on the evidence of senses and of reason is heresy and treason. It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible. What we know as blind faith is sustained by innumerable unbeliefs.

As quoted by Bryant, ibid.
Astronomia nova (1609)

Source: City of Ashes

Epilogue “Reunion with Stony” (p. 303)
The Sirens of Titan (1959)

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations

Robert Motherwell, partly quoting Jean Arp, in Motherwell & black (1981) p. 94 -->
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