15 September 2001 - the whitening pyre

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2001 : 15 September 2001

The Second Knowing, or, The Worst Are Not Convicted

Burning and burning in the whitening pyre,
The lucid never notice Lucifer.
Things hang together; sinners cannot know
How heaven’s arch will loose us like an arrow.

clue:

Too much certainty is a dangerous mistake.

This is a parody of the first lines of “The Second Coming” by W.B. Yeats.

give me a clue so sweet and true