“They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne.
We shall return at twilight from the lecture
Pleased that the irrational is rational,Until flicked by feeling, in a gildered street,
I call you by name, my green, my fluent mundo.”

—  Wallace Stevens

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure

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