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[sus]

Ulysses as prototype for the Drowned World

 

[sus]

And also that Keats, Shelley, Byron went to the sunny south to die

 

[sus]

Even now you go to Florida or Mexico to die, if you're an American.

 

[sus]

Or Arizona

 

[version]

Even now you go to Florida or Mexico to die, if you're an American.

Hart Crane.

 

[Benny Bunter]

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Who wrote this?

The second conclusion is Tennyson's Ulysses, which apparently he took from Dante, and references Satan's Milton. He can't go back to a 'normal' life after all he's been through.

 

[version]

Satan's Milton.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Eh?

 

[luka]

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Ive seen that before what is ot

 

[Benny Bunter]

Ah, I see, Milton's satan I meant, smartarse!

 

[Benny Bunter]

It was a Blakean slip.

 

[version]

Ive seen that before what is ot

Idiot.

 

[luka]

What is it whats wrong with u

 

[Benny Bunter]

It was a Blakean slip.

"Milton was of the Devil's Party without knowing it."

 

[luka]

Im sorry i laughed at your existential crisis

 

[version]

What is it whats wrong with u

Twat.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Ive seen that before what is ot

@version @sus Dont tell him

 

[luka]

Why do u hate me version ive always been tender and loving with you. I treated you like you needed to be treated. Like the most exquisite lovely little flower.

 

[sus]

Ive seen that before what is ot

Howard Nemerov poem

 

[sus]

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This is about the stillness in moving things,

In running water, also in the sleep

Of winter seeds, where time to come has tensed

Itself, enciphering a script so fine