Reflecting upon Lear

Canto, the Second.

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‘But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.’ ~Umberto Eco

• When curses not so strong
  pierce through your vanity,
  when this arbitrary vessel
  this ever-subsisting soul
  turns vile, turns rusty, turns foul
  when the last vestiges of mercy doth fail
  and wits begin to unsettle
  turn this landmass, this sea
  turn lifeless. A non vital being.

Canto, the first
Canto, the third