Auto-idolatry. Poetic harmony of character. Eurhythmy of character
and faculties. Of conserving all the faculties. Of augmenting all the
faculties. A cult (Magianism, evocatory sorcery).
The sacrifice and the vow are the highest formulæ and symbols of
exchange.
Two fundamental literary qualities: the supernatural, and irony.
Individual glance, aspect in which things maintain themselves before
the writer, then a Satanic turn of mind. The supernatural includes the
general color and the accent, i.e., intensity, sonority, limpidity,
vibration, depth and resonance in space and in time.
There are moments in life when time and space are deeper, and the
intensity of life immeasurably increased.
Of magic applied to the rousing of the great dead, to the
reestablishment and the perfecting of health.
Inspiration always comes, when a man _wishes_, but it does not always
go, when he wishes.
Of writing and of speech, considered as magic operations, evocatory
sorcery.