A paradoxical realization

If I didn't like Cavafy's poem "Before Time Could Change Them", I would absolutely detest, abominate, and odiate it. (It is reproduced below in a translation the author of which I can't recall if'n you want to see it.)

Unrelated quasi-update: I would love to read this article.

Also unrelated: there should be a band called Fronting Fellers Union Local 242.