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I will read the octopus poem.

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Tikopians believe
the octopus is both

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a mountain with tentacle streams
and the sun with its rays,

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so should not be eaten.

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The mystery of metaphor
is nearly lost to us,

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as if only the
illusion of metaphor

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remains or the myth of metaphor
or metaphor without ikon.

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Rousseau writes, 'The first
speech was all in poetry,

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or poetry's reasoning was
the first figure of speech.'

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Palingenesis of word--
butter, bird, mind's forms,

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reveals mind, ether,
spirit unhindered."

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