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Amusement is a full time preoccupation, and, as Rimbaud usefully insisted, one is wise to make ‘the magical study’ which happiness is. Just so the fact of William and Catherine Blake sitting stark naked in their small back garden in Lambeth, reading Milton’s Paradise Lost. When a friend surprised them there, Blake’s response was, ‘It’s only Adam and Eve, you know.’

--robert creeley