Any Sublimated LoversAuthor(s): Oliver RiceSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Winter, 2000/2001), p. 54Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20154864 .

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Oliver Rice

Any Sublimated Lovers

All who are unable to remain alone

and content in their rooms,

think of Hector Berlioz that night performing his Symphonie Fun?bre et Triomphale.

Any who have been diminished by astronomy or the dailiness of the years,

who are allergic to restless ironies

or the uncertainty principle, think of Berlioz conducting, as the story goes,

with a drawn sword, brandishing, thrusting.

All who from their predicaments watch the implacable systems,

any upon whose psyches the paradoxes and the platitudes have settled,

whose angels of destiny have crept away

into the fatuity of things, think of Berlioz, at the end, flinging himself

upon the timpani in a seizure of weeping.

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