cartesian rebirth (aragon)

I realized that man is sopping with gods like a sponge immersed in heaven. These gods live, they reach their prime, then die, bequeathing their perfumed altars to other gods. They are the very law behind the total transformation of everything in this world. They are the necessity of movement. So, I ecstatically strolled among a thousand divine concretions. I began to formulate a walking mythology or, more accurately, a modern mythology, which is the name under which I conceived it.

- 95, "Feeling of Nature in Buttes-Chaumont," Le Paysan de Paris, Louis Aragon