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Sorbonne

The Sorbonne is a building in Paris' Latin Quarter.  "Robert de Sorbon founded a college in 1253 for theology students without money.  The pope approved of the idea, and it later became the University of Paris. Student life was ruled by a rigorous class schedule: dialectics, astronomy, grammar, rhetoric, and math" (1).  




Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction[]

It Must Give Pleasure

They will get it straight  one day at the Sorbonne.

We shall return at twilight from the lecture,

Pleased that the rational is irrational.  (ll. 633-635)






References[]

1.La Sorbonne

2. Wallace Stevens Concordance

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