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“ Walter Pater said that all the arts aspire to the condition of music, but I’ve always felt that music aspires to the condition of words. ”

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I'm heading for a clean-named placelike Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o'-lantern, will get therewithout help and nosy proclivities.

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A little bunny or some kind of ferret was probablythere too, and bore witness as only rodents can.

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Its a bit mad. Too bad, I mean, that getting to know each just for a fleeting second Must be replaced by unperfect knowledge of the featureless wholeLike some pocket history of the world, so generalAs to constitute a sob or wail

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Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision

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