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To return to bad verse
It is remarkable and true that bad verse, the nadir, has about it something of the poignant and removed from common experience which you get also in poetry. In the same way the demons are aweful -- though in a different fashion from what the angels are. And so also great pits strike one with horror, as do the mountains with their sublimity.