"Indolence is heaven’s ally here, And energy the child of hell: The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear But brims the poisoned well."
— Herman Melville

January 1, 1970

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Timoleon, Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the Twelfth Century, Fragment 2