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Many Faces we Carry

“Here I am, at the Thirteenth Latitude of Desolation,
the Hundredth Longitude of Shame,
the utmost Altitude of teeth-gnashing Defiance,
somewhere far out, at the point of the Ultimate,
and still I wonder whether it is possible
to go any farther…”

 

—The message found in the bottle in Karinthy’s poem “The Message in the Bottle”