Christian Bök, “The Great Order of the Universe”, in Poetry, Vol. 194, No. 4, July and August 2009, p. 334. (via)
et cetera
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Had he read Democritus, he might have discovered, in philosophy's first collection of ethical precepts, among portents of atheism, and the vision of his own soul composed of round, smooth, especially mobile atoms, that it is the unexpected which occurs.
—William Gaddis, The Recognitions