Oliver Benjamin
P A R T 2
WATER
Be thou from Hell upsprung or Heaven descended,
Beauty! Thy look demoniac and divine
Pours good and evil things confusedly blended,
And therefore art thou likened unto wine.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, Hymn to Beauty
It is not jokingly that one begins to describe the
bottom of the universe.
DANTE, TheInferno
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