1. “But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp
was all I had been given, and patience without end to shine it
on the empty shadows.”
Molloy
S.Beckett
2. “but this can wait”
cf. “But this by the bye.”
Tristram Shandy
L.Sterne
3. “…light only becomes visible through the bodies which reflect
it, and without them loses itself in darkness without producing
any effect.”
World as Will and Idea
F.Schopenhauer
4. “Death, from street to alley, from door to window,
Cries out his news,–of unplumbed worlds approaching.”
The House of Dust. ‘Coffins: Interlude’
C.Aiken
5. “Dragging cold cannon through a mud
Of rain and blood;
The new moon glinting hard on eyes
Wide with insanities!”
The Fool Rings His Bells
Walter De LaMare
6. When error’s waves are past
How sweet to reach thy tranquil port at last
And gently rocked in undulation doubt,
Smile at the sturdy winds which was without.
Hail, Skeptic Ease [?]
Th.Moore
7. Frottage n. ‘1. the technique or process of taking a rubbing from
an uneven surface to form the basis of a work of art. 2. the
practice of touching or rubbing against the clothed body of another.
[for sexual gratification]
poetastrophy 