Monday, March 03, 2008

The Gallows




















Allons au jugement une fleur à la boutonnière. (Cioran)

(‘Let us go to judgement with a flower in our buttonhole.’)

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1 comment:

  1. Mark Granier10:37 AM

    I like that. It reminds me of a little sequence of three couplets by Anthony Glavin, called Prisoners (from his Gallery collection).

    Here's the first:


    SIR THOMAS MORE

    'Utopia' personified, waiting in the Tower
    In silence, for 'the fulness of permanent laughter.'

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