pretty helix, pretty helix

"[mutual] disillusionment with the world is... the only real basis for love between man and woman"...

adapted
from an essay on melville and arnold.

Extra-celestial.

Melville in Clarel: "the negatives of flesh" ... "the penetralia of retreat"...

"It is not so much paucity as superabundance of material that seems to incapacitate modern authors".