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The most volatile compound known to man

By Scott Granneman / 14 May 2006 14 May 2006 / commonplace book, language & literature / character, defeat, language, maxim, psychology

From The New Yorker‘s “The Disappearing Poet” (4 July 2005):

There is no more volatile compound known to man than that of decorum and despair. — Anthony Lane, on Weldon Kees

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