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For a long time I boasted that I was master of all possible landscapes and I thought the great figures of modern painting and poetry were laughable.

What I liked were : absurd paintings, pictures over doorways, stage sets, carnival backdrops, billboards, bright-colored prints ; old-fashioned literature, church Latin, erotic books full of misspellings, the kind of novels our grandmothers read, fairy tales, little children’s books, old operas, silly old songs, the naïve rhythms of country rimes.

I dreamed of Crusades, voyages of discovery that nobody had heard of, republics without histories, religious wars stamped out, revolutions in morals, movements of races and continents : I used to believe in every kind of magic.

-Rimbaud

interesting times are ahead of me.

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Let’s fly to the famous Asian cities,
Stealing our maps from dark museums,
Ancient, inaccurate maps
With curly-headed winds.
Let’s fly to the famous Asian cities

On Friday next, at the quitting whistle.
We gather where the road is crooked.
Our password is your name
Whatever it may be
On Friday next, at the quitting whistle.

Marvelous animals, beautiful spirits,
We were never much good at being human.
Like heroes in old films,
Frantically we flee the world.
Marvelous animals, beautiful spirits!

-Henri Coulette

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