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 * [ ] Podcast episode: [The Post-anthropocene](post-anthropocene)
 * [ ] Idea: [Forest of Ghosts](forest-of-ghosts)
 
+## Epigraphs
+
+'''
+People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
+But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
+But you are eternity and you are the mirror. 
+
+— The Prophet, by Khalil Gibran https://www.gutenberg.org/files/58585/58585-h/58585-h.htm
+'''
+
+'''
+Unreal city, city full of dreams,
+Where ghosts in broad daylight cling to passsers-by.
+
+— Fleurs du mal, by Baudelaire via T.S. Eliot
+'''
+
 ## By stanza
 
 * [o] First