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Someone since I've
been here, told me

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about a poem of
mine which has been

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woven into the culture in a
way that sounded great to me.

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It was some kind of
multimedia show or something.

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It was just this little
thing which I want to read.

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It's called "Room
Zero Zero Zero."

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"After the last class in the
empty room, chairs relax.

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Each in a shadow, and
they all stand still

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and hear anti-lectures
all night long.

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Staccato silences
measure out the hours,

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where does the wind end?

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What can the rain give?

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Standing around the
absent students,

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those little whispers come
near, nearer, why is a hall?

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Is a hall?

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Is a hall?"

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Well, now I want to
sacrifice this in a hurry

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and dance away from it, because
of a special little feeling

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of emergency about it.

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Maybe well, first,
if a writer is

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a person who gets
some worthy ideas

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and then uses those skills
he's learned in school

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or anywhere, in order to present
those ideas to other people,

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then it's quite
possible that someone

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could say about anything that
he's written or said that,

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what does this mean?

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And since it's a worthy idea,
it's related to other ideas

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and it's possible to
give an equivalent.

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But what if that person
has done an activity that

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isn't the way I phrased it?

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What if he has just gone forward
by a process that has taken him

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way out somewhere,
and dumped him off

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like at the end of
room zero, zero, zero

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or something like that?

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And someone says,
what does this mean?

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Well, since you didn't
start with an idea,

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and no other ideas have
caught up with it yet,

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you don't know how
to say what it means.

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I mean, what I'm
trying to grope for is

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that old topic, of the
equivalence of something

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you say.

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If it's something that's
well standardized,

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then it's easy to
give a substitute.

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But if it's something
that isn't standardized,

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I don't know what
you have to do.

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You just have to wait till
other things are like it.

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And then say, well,
it's like that.

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And they say, oh, yeah.

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OK.

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