«...Me miserable! Which way shall I fly
Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide,
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.»
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Passacaglia And Fugue In C Minor, BWV 582, performed by the legendary Karl Richter. From his CD records "Bach: Organ Works" (1969).
Image credit: Gustave Doré - The fall of Lucifer (1866, Paradise Lost #12)