“Perfect aristocratic tone, Degrandpre thought: insult and menace in a single phrase.”
Source: Bios (1999), Chapter 11 (p. 106)
“There was such idiot minstrelsy in rain,
So many clappers going without bells,
That these bethous compose a heavenly gong. One voice repeating, one tireless chorister,
The phrases of a single phrase, ke-ke,
A single text, granite monotony”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
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