May 21, 2005
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From a March 10, 2004, entry:
“Language was no more than a collection of meaningless conventional
signs, and life could absurdly end at any moment. [Mallarmé] became
aware, in Millan’s* words, ‘of the extremely fine line
separating absence and presence, being and nothingness, life and death,
whichlater … he could place at the very centre of his work
and make the cornerstone of his personal philosophy and his mature
poetics.’ “– John Simon, Squaring the Circle
* A Throw of the Dice: The Life of Stéphane Mallarmé, by Gordon Millan
For those who prefer
art that is more lurid:
(Photo in lower half
from Cinetribulations)
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