What was Rimbaud's theory of the seer?
It is not a theory; it is an *act*. The poet, this supposed seer, must make himself another. To break free from the fetters of self, to become a vessel for the world's raw, unspeakable truth. This requires a profound, deliberate descent into madness, a derangement of the senses that shatters the mundane perception. Through this violent dissolution, one might glimpse the radiant, terrible realities beyond the veil of ordinary life. True life is absent in your waking stupor. I sought it in the abyss, in the vertigo of pure sensation, in the stolen light of the stars.
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