Wednesday, February 10, 2016

"...To catacombs, caverns, and deserts."

The Hermit, Mikhail Nesterov, 1889


And we, the wise men and the poets
       Custodians of truths and of secrets
Will bear off our torches of knowledge
       To catacombs, caverns and deserts.

[L.A. Lyusternik, quoted in Naming Infinity, by Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor]

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