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And this is called, "A Leap."

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It's set in a room
at the Art Institute

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in Chicago that has a kind of a
sculpture by the architect who

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designed the room.

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A Japanese architect named Ando.

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It's 16 wooden columns
standing on the floor, 4

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by 4 in rows about
8 or 10 feet high.

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The ceiling is about
16 or 20 feet high.

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"A Leap."

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"Not always, but sometimes,
sometimes, I unmoving,

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they unmoving, I
watch for a while

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the 16 squared columns of wood.

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Smooth, polished,
dark, in a dark room,

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standing all together.

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And I imagine others
of type, of marble,

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of red granite, that like these
refuse to hold anything up.

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Nothing atop them.

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No capitals, no architraves,
no impediments, no rafters,

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no roofs, no temples, no courts,
no markets, no banks, spires,

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or legislatures.

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No slaves, no lost cause, crops,
canons, accords, foreign debts,

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recessions, no mandates,
no systems, newscasts,

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or calendars.

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I begin at their feet and move
my gaze upward along them.

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Then at the tops, I feel the
next look as a leap of my body

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off free columns toward
anything or anyone freed."

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