Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud: "Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891)


Now, only recently, being on the point of giving my last squawk, I thought of looking for the key to the ancient feast where I might find my appetite again.

Charity is that key. -- This inspiration proves that I have dreamed!

'You will always be a hyena...' etc., protests the devil who crowned me with such pleasant poppies. 'Attain death with all your appetites, your selfishness and all the capital sins!'

Ah! I'm fed up: -- But, dear Satan, a less fiery eye I beg you! And while awaiting a few small infamies in arrears, you who love the absence of the instructive or descriptive faculty in a writer, for you let me tear out these few, hideous pages from my notebook of one of the damned."

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