Constable John Stevens

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    You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch, therefore bear you the lantern.
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    Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one.... The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
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    The wind attendant on the solstices
    Blows on the shutters of the metropoles,
    Stirring no poet in his sleep, and tolls
    The trand ideas of the villages.
    The malady of the quotidian. . . .
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)