revealed

there are some sentiments one unconsciously waits to be articulated...

"love is the basis of magic" --Marsilio Ficino, Commentary on Plato's Symposium

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I have promised an allegorical and, to that extent, a mystical exercise of the wits, in the name of Phoebus the oath-orderer, whose gifts these are. The Muses never argue with Apollo, they sing. And indeed even Mercury himself, the first artisan of argument, although he may discuss weighty matters with Saturn or Jupiter, yet with Apollo he plays, their jests not only fitting but divine. May our play also not be unfitting!