惡的美學 八：撒旦之死，靈感之哀
*tenement: old apartment building
*the capital Negation: this is associated with the later "the mortal no" and "no" elsewhere
*the mortal no: here the three words make one phrase that serves as the subject of that line
from Esthétique du Mal
VIII
The death of Satan was a tragedy
For the imagination. A capital
Negation* destroyed him in his tenement*
And, with him, many blue phenomena.
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Phantoms, what have you left? What underground?
What place in which to be is not enough
To be? You go, poor phantoms, without place
Like silver in the sheathing of the sight,
As the eye closes….How cold the vacancy
When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist
First sees reality. The mortal no*
Has its emptiness and tragic expirations.
The tragedy, however, may have begun,
Again, in the imagination’s new beginning,
In the yes of the realist spoken because he must
Say yes, spoken because under every no
Lay a passion for yes that had never been broken.
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