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The Man Who Was Thursday

CHAPTER I
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Yes, the poet will be discontented even in the streets of heaven.

The poet is always in revolt." "There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt?
You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick.
Being sick is a revolt.

Both being sick and being rebellious may be the wholesome thing on certain desperate occasions; but I'm hanged if I can see why they are poetical.

Revolt in the abstract is--revolting.

It's mere vomiting." The girl winced for a flash at the unpleasant word, but Syme was too hot to heed her.
"It is things going right," he cried, "that is poetical! Our digestions, for instance, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.


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