Coal Brought

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    And in their blazing solitude
    The stars sang in their sockets through the night:
    “Blow bright, blow bright
    The coal of this unquickened world.”
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
    Georges Bataille (1897–1962)