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The past and the future slumber in the eye of the unicorn.

Adage from the Middle Ages

The pitiful, battered voices

Of the old hurdy-gurdies

First caressing, then biting

Are like the sad, reedy cries

Of a madman who sniggers and sobs

On his deathbed.

Jean Richepin

(The Song of the Beggars, 1876)