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Now what my great, great
friend and mentor said was--

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his name was Charles
Olson, and in a sense,

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he gave me permission
when I was a young kid

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to be anything that I could be.

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What he said was,
"I take SPACE to be

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the central fact to
man born in America,

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from Folsom cave to now.

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I take SPACE to be the central
fact to man born in America,

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from Folsom cave to now."

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That means that the spaces
of the American West

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are working on us
all, all the time.

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Every time we raise our head
to look at the far mountain

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ranges, we're seeing that
space that Charles realized

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was what was creating other
human beings, the central fact

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to man born in America,
from Folsom cave to now.

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Folsom cave was discovered
in Northern New Mexico.

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It was a time legend
about 30,000 years ago,

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which was about the
time that it was

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thought that human beings
came to America over the land

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bridge.

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