Lettre de Cachet.

[MANICHAEAN]

What a world of prurient corruption lies visible in that super-sublime of modesty.

Yet on the whole, our good St Pierre is musical, poetical, though most morbid: we will call his book the swan-song of old dying France.

[tailor STATELY]

"How is our bright Era of Hope dimmed: and the whole sky growing bleak with signs of hurricane and earthquake!"

Excellent prose!

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

[MANICHAEAN]

Half-weary of a world which is more than half-weary of him; in dull smoke and ashes of outburnt sensualities does he live and digest.

[Danik 2016]

Tell him that hopefully, better days will come! They always do, even if it takes some time.

[MANICHAEAN]

Deed of unhallowed darkness, such as despotism loves.

[MANICHAEAN]

Invitation to chaos to be so kind as build, out of its tumultuous drift-wood, an ark of escape.

[MANICHAEAN]

The sound of those cracked voices, with their bodeful raven-note.

[MANICHAEAN]

The beggar with his crust moistened in tears.

[MANICHAEAN]

Slipped its muzzle: and now bays three-throated, like the Dog of Erebus.