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“Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?” This rabbit hole did not disappoint: It ended with poetry. Satire -> Alexandre Pope -> William Shield -> The Auld Lange Syne Controversy > Rosina -> (listened a bit to Rosina on YT) -> (returned to Alexandre Pope) -> John Hervey-> Suetonius -> Castration -> The Glorious Revolution > Deposition of James II -> The Dunciad -> “Still Dunce the second rules like Dunce the first" -> An Essay on Criticism -> Heroic couplet-> Nabokov -> “And then black night. That blackness was sublime. I felt distributed through space and time: One foot upon a mountaintop. One hand Under the pebbles of a panting strand, One ear in Italy, one eye in Spain, In caves, my blood, and in the stars, my brain …” (Pale Fire, Nabokov) #rabbithole #poetry #randomnotes