Cosmic Edges

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Burnt Tongues

Burnt Tongues

Inferno Canto XXVII

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If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. (Corinthians 13:1)

How can we kiss and think? (Lisa Robertson, 3 Summers)

Thinking of the Tower of Babel and confusio linguarum, mythic origins of language, of Plato’s banishment of perspicacious but truth-distorting poets, of the age-old advice don’…

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