The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Poems by T. S. Eliot: "You, madam, are the eternal humorist,
The eternal enemy of the absolute,
Giving our vagrant moods the slightest twist!
With your aid indifferent and imperious
At a stroke our mad poetics to confute--"
And--"Are we then so serious?"
La Figlia Che Piange
O quam te memorem Virgo ...
Stand on the highest pavement of the stair--
Lean on a garden urn--
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