Schwenger, Peter
The Tears of Things (2006)
ICI Shelf: Current project
FIRST LINE: “In the satirical hodgepodge that is book III of Gulliver’s Travels, the prize exhibit is undoubtedly the Academy of Lagado.”
LAST LINE: “Melancholy, for all its links to real and metaphysical death, is a desire, a yearning that refuses to conclude, that is always impelled past conclusion.”
Accession #: ICI-01011