| | Beyond the Fire
"Who Needs a White Cube These Days?"
-- Headline in today's New York Times
"That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire..."
-- Poem title, Gerard Manley Hopkins
"... Sleep
realized
Was the whiteness that is the ultimate intellect,
A diamond jubilance beyond the fire,
That gives its power to the wild-ringed eye."
-- Wallace Stevens,
"The Owl in the Sarcophagus" III 13-16,
from The Auroras of Autumn, 1950
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The five entries ending on Christmas, 2005.
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