Inventions Of The March Hare

"He said: the universe is very clever
 The scientists have laid it out on paper

Each atom goes on working out its law, and never
 Can cut an unintentional caper.

He said: it is a geometric net
 And in the middle, like a syphilitic spider

The Absolute was waiting, till we get
 All tangled up and end ourselves inside her."

 - untitled poem from Inventions Of The March Hare: Poems 1909-1917 by T. S. Eliot, edited by Christopher Ricks, New York, Harcourt  Brace & Company: 1996.

Images:
1. Eugene Gabritschevsky - Vision of Insurmountable Desire, 1937, Musee d'Art moderne et contemporain, Toulouse.
2. Odilon Redon - Germination, 1879, Art Institute of Chicago.
3. Odilon Redon - The Smiling Spider, c.1886, Louvre Museum, Paris.
4. Odilon Redon  - The Head Tree, undated, private collection.
5.  Odilon Redon - Le Regard, before 1900, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Rennes.
6. Odilon Redon - The Prisoner, undated, Louvre Museum, Paris.