Of the Standard of Taste
“We are apt to call barbarous whatever departs widely from our own taste and apprehension: But soon find the epithet of reproach retorted on us.” – David Hume (1711-1776).
Of Suicide and Immortality
Experience finally unbearable
And yet
What else is there?
You lack a delicacy of imagination
Numb to the prick of beauty’s proper sentiment
And so
Denigrate the guiding stars
Of Astrolabe and Alkoran
prejudice,3
conviction.
3. Unreasonable preconceived judgment
Or:
A certain point of view.
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