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From where I sit, I
can see other things--

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a silver porcupine,
pins standing upright.

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It is a vanished tale of a
vanished forest at the shore

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of a vanished ocean.

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I call the dead
as often as I can.

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In the vaults, among mummies--

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this is pure memorial.

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I am the girl in whose
eyes the name is written.

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I feel as if veiled, as if soon
I shall get to know something.

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There are people with
encephalitis who cannot go

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forward, but can go
backward, and can dance.

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In this rough draft
of my memoirs,

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my brother comes toward me--

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frightened, skeletal--
longing for marvels.

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I cannot describe it better
than by comparing it to other

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figures, intoxication.

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Mere reflexes, as for
instance breathing,

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can become conscious.

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One of two rivals has his
ornamental tail bit off.

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In dying sounds, barely reaching
our ears, a melody continues.

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No end to it--

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an infinite progression.

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All this love of a bygone age.

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Watch the track of a
concentrated sunbeam

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through our lake ice--

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part of the beam is
stopped, part goes through.

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Now the upper surface
buckles, phantasmagoria

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of unchained passion--

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under which the land
quakes, the ocean swells,

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and a myriad-years-old
forest snaps and cracks.

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Surpassing all
forms of experience,

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the wide, deep,
freshwater lake--

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on which the city is built--

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rises before us.

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Here a modern idea
interposes, a new body

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made from the elements.

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Then everything is forgotten.

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Sometimes, thoughts are
cut off and sometimes, they

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are the blade, which cuts.

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At the present gravel pit,
electric lights in the evening

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cast their magic blue sheen.

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There's the sun, a crack above
those hills, breaking the day.

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If the door open, who comes in?

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If it close, what will
interrupt my train?

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The staircase effect
supplies strong evidence

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for a subjective map.

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Downhill, the sun
trickles, unperturbed.

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Here trots a mammoth
with red wool,

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through the black yew forest.

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The tendency of
elements to linger on--

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you say I dream of
what I want, but what

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I want now is to dream.

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The cold rind broken,
the same wind blows.

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Through a lens of ice,
the dark heat of the sun

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burns wood, fires
gunpowder, melts lead.

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Perhaps a cloud of musk rises,
such as issues from a crocodile

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in passion.

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Unless light falls properly
upon these flowers,

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you cannot see them.

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All associations are this
level rain down from above.

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We talk of word-pictures.

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We observe vertigo.

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We reached the cleft of a
steep gully or couloir--

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very dangerous, the
path from the heights,

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the glory of the prospect,
the insight gained.

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What I mean is a disturbance
in all the senses at once.

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You will not find
the flowers confused.

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Facing a certain wind,
there is always danger.

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