i'm sure i've said, but i am overjoyed that merrill devotes nearly an entire subsection of his poem to quotations, and apropos of yesterday, i think our ideas of reference are compatible. he says:

Jung says--or if he doesn't, all but does--
That God and the Unconscious are one. Hm.




my left arm went numb while reading divine comedies in the bath and it may be a false memory but i think that happened before while reading the same. a pinched nerve i expect.



the couplet of couplets:

(However seldom in my line to feel,
I most love those for whom the world is real.)