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"Lilac Futures."

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""Tender little Buddha," she
said of his least Buddha like

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member.

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She was probably quoting Allen
Ginsberg who was probably

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paraphrasing Walt Whitman.

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After the Civil War, after
the death of Lincoln, and that

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was a good time to
own railroad stocks.

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But he was at the
Library of Congress

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doing research on
alternative Americas,

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reading up on the curiosities
of Hindu philosophy,

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studying the lithographs
of stone carvings,

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of strange couplets in a book.

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She was taking off a
blouse almost transparent,

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the color of a smoky tangerine.

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From Capitol Hill,
Walt Whitman must

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have been able to see the
willows gathering river

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haze in the cooling and
still humid twilight.

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He was in love with the trolley
car conductor in the summer of,

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what was it?

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1867?

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1868?"

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