This is Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality—my attempt to make myself, and all of you out there in SubStackLand, smarter by writing where I have Value Above Replacement and shutting up where I do not… William Butler Yeats (1914): The MagiThey found what they had sought above all things, and yet find that it slipped away and left them permanently unsatisfied. & now there they are & we are they…They found what they had sought above all things, and yet find that it slipped away and left them permanently unsatisfied. & now there they are & we are they…Or so I read it today: The MagiWilliam Butler YeatsNow as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue depths of the sky With all their ancient faces like rain-beaten stones, And all their helms of silver hovering side by side, And all their eyes still fixed, hoping to find once more, Being by Calvary's turbulence unsatisfied, The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.
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William Butler Yeats (1914): The Magi
Tuesday, 6 January 2026
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