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middle stages bring the end of ambiguity.” 1. We plunge into place as if into time finding our bodies a bluff or a fairy tale retreating from knowledge we seek to form a pact of mutuality as if to console
2. I do not know you or the time thus spent “I grieve that grief can teach me nothing” until such time as it is erased (Bells of cattle disturbed the bison who swum across streams in order to escape) “We animate what we can, and see only what we animate” Simpler puzzles with fewer parts until silence becomes the medium
3. Here comes nobody followed by nothing “oblique but casual” the opium spreads until forgetting is seen as a preference like singing to express all formal relations
4. Emerson in the saddle a final trip west “Serene as a sequoia” John Muir described him the history of dementia recorded by Solon (500 B.C.) (they die of starvation)
5. We have miniaturized knowledge until it disappears into sleight-of-hand geography reduced to the head of a pin Read as a parable history vanishes
6. A destructive influence on civilized peoples of others less civilized observed by the group in the final report on nations and nation- building (nobody comes nobody goes) to destroy all remaining by way of philanthropy senility too part of the report
7. Let us make final the state of the state “I never know what may befall me” “To `humanize’ mice we trick their bodies into acquiring a disease heredity has spared them” Do not go gentle do not go do not intercede Emerson asking, “Mr. ___________, what is pie for?”
8. Speech now limited to one word per day No mottos on tombs Let it be said that silence will out The eternal return has been cancelled by permission “Nothing will remain without being spoken” © Maxine Chernoff 2006. |
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