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Invocation [Neal Stephenson]

  • 15-12-2003 7:05pm
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    DapperGent
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    This poem entitled Invocation appears (as an invocation) at the start of Neal Stephenson's latest novel Quicksilver.

    I think anyone who has sat for hours trying to write something worthwhile would enjoy it.

    Anyways I liked it:

    Invocation

    State your intentions, Muse. I know you're there.
    Dead bards who pined for you have said
    You're bright as flame, but fickle as the air.
    My pen and I, submerged in liquid shade,
    Much dark can spread, on days and over reams
    But without you, no radiance can shed.
    Why rustle in the dark, when fledged with fire?
    Craze the night with flails of light. Reave
    Your turbid shroud. Bestow what I require.


    But you're not in the dark. I do believe
    I swim, like squid, in clouds of my own make,
    To you, offensive. To us both, opaque.
    What's constituted so, only a pen
    Can penetrate. I have one here; let's go.


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