Lace passes into nothingness...
de Stéphane Mallarmé(2005)
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Lace passes into nothingness,
With the ultimate Gamble in doubt,
In blasphemy revealing just
Eternal absence of any bed.
This concordant enmity
Of a white garland and the same,
In flight against the pallid glass,
Hovers and does not enshroud.
But where, limned gold, the dreamer dwells,
There sleeps a mournful mandola,
Its deep lacuna source of song,
Of a kind that toward some window,
Formed by that belly or none at all,
Filial, one might have been born.
Translation by Patricia Terry and Maurice Z. Shroder