<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t1" style="width: 540px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="td2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t2" style="width: 540px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="middle" class="td2"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">VIII</font></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t1" style="width: 540px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="middle" class="td2"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="s1"></span><br class=""></font></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t1" style="width: 540px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="td2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: auto;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="middle" class="td3"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">What am I to believe? If the angel in his cloud, </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">Serenely gazing at the violet abyss, </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">Plucks on his strings to pluck abysmal glory, </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="s1"></span><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">Leaps downward through evening’s revelations, and </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">On his spredden wings, needs nothing but deep space, </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">Forgets the gold centre, the golden destiny, </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="s1"></span><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">Grows warm in the motionless motion of his flight, </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">Am I that imagine this angel less satisfied? </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">Are the wings his, the lapis-haunted air? </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="s1"></span><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">Is it he or is it I that experience this? </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">Is it I then that keep saying there is an hour </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">Filled with expressible bliss, in which I have </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="s1"></span><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">No need, am happy, forget need’s golden hand, </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">Am satisfied without solacing majesty, </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">And if there is an hour there is a day, </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="s1"></span><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">There is a month, a year, there is a time </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">In which majesty is a mirror of the self: </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">I have not but I am and as I am, I am. </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="s1"></span><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">These external regions, what do we fill them with </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">Except reflections, the escapades of death, </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">Cinderella fulfilling herself beneath the roof?</font></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Wallace Stevens</div></body></html>