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Ah!  I'm fed up:--But, dear Satan, a less fiery eye I beg you!  And while awaiting a few small infamies in arrears, you who love the absence of the instructive or descriptive faculty in a writer, for you let me tear out these few, hideous pages from my notebook of one of the damned.

--arthur rimbaud [a season in hell, translated by louise varese; new directions; 1961]