<< QuickMuse is a cutting contest, a linguistic jam session, a series of on-the-fly compositions in which some great poets riff away on a randomly picked subject. It’s an experiment, QuickMuse, to see if first thoughts are indeed the best ones. >>
On July 6th, QuickMuse gave DL fifteen minutes to respond to the following:
"I regret not having taken up the offer of a Cambridge colleague, a pathologist of proven insight and tact, to try LSD under his supervision. Having experienced no such drug, I remain at a loss to imagine, to conceptualise one of the principal agents of ruin and consolation, of desire and annulment at the anarchic heart of our culture. A ‘trip’ not taken." George Steiner, Errata: An Examined Life
How did he do? Find out here.