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The Inquisitive Mans Dream

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Do you know, as I do, delicious sadness     and make others say of you: Strange man!     I was dying. In my soul, singular illness,     desire and horror were mingled as one:     anguish and living hope, no factious bile.     The more the fatal sand ran out, the more     acute, delicious my torment: my heart entire     was tearing itself away from the world I saw.     I was like a child eager for the spectacle,     hating the curtain as one hates an obstacle     at last the truth was chillingly revealed:     Id died without surprise, dreadful morning     enveloped me. Was this all there was to see?     The curtain had risen, and I was still waiting.

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"Do you know, as I do, delicious sadness..."

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