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I'm sorry to be so melancholy
but maybe it's my truth.

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This one has to do with
the subject of linguistics.

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And it's addressed
to Dave Anton who has

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been majoring in linguistics.

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And I think it's not directly
on the subject but really

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an attitude towards Dave
Anton's sense of what

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the linguistics is all about.

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I heard a man talking
without a tongue,

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he grunted grammatically.

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It was easy to grasp
that he wanted a tongue

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and was saying he missed it.

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I was quite moved and I was
delighted he could signal.

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But who could help?

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What could be done except to
teach him to write and make

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that his subject,
which then could

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lead to other thoughts
in his pleasure?

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We'd embrace him, knowing that
among us were missing legs,

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arms, heads, and penises that we
too can't talk about endlessly

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without finding ourselves
alone and in trouble.

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I have quite a few in
this book on the subject

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and we'll select a number
of them as I go along,

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beginning with the later ones.