Monologue

Second Chinese Monologue from Three Travelers Watch a Sunrise

From Three Travelers Watch a Sunrise by Wallace Stevens

any · philosophical · 39 sec

This candle is the sun; This bottle is earth: It is an illustration Used by generations of hermits. The point of difference from reality Is this: That, in this illustration, The earth remains of one color— It remains red, It remains what it is. But when the sun shines on the earth, In reality It does not shine on a thing that remains What it was yesterday. The sun rises On whatever the earth happens to be.

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