Conjectures At Random
Let us not conjecture at random about the greatest things.
—Heraclitus
threadbare language
How threadbare the language of happiness!
—Osip Mandelstam, from poem “Tristia,”
Osip Mandelstam: The Eyesight of Wasps
(Ohio State U. Press, 1989), translated by James Greene
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