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"hellish 'transcendence' in the mid-20th century"

[aspartylalanine]

to sift bones again

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viscera glint in the compound eye

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knife fight in quicksand

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years wasted as a maenad

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stealing things just to steal them

[aspartylalanine]

"infernal totality"

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an anarchist with regal bearing

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like a deaf cellist playing by feel

[aspartylalanine]

a counterfeit blue

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dissect everything, even the ghosts

[aspartylalanine]

You end up missing everything

[aspartylalanine]

"the waxen mask and the robe that hides"

[aspartylalanine]

"suffused with an air of primal dread"

[aspartylalanine]

(and the wheel is a wheel)

[aspartylalanine]

pilfered, looted, borrowed

[aspartylalanine]

the stonework gets better the more the wall goes up