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I've taken a little
dip and buried myself

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and everybody else.

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It was a little chilly for me.

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I left right out.

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I mean, actually, my apologies.

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I know, there's a lot.

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I actually have a new book
out which, if it weren't $50,

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I would grab.

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In fact, because it's
$50, I should grab it.

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Grab in the other sense.

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It's actually a real interesting
book, a real patchwork

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of dreaming then, I mean,
it's amazing what-- the things

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he brings together there.

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But there are thickets of
language in these French guys.

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I mean, I don't know what they--

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I think it's to define a
terrain of exclusivity.

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I'm half convinced that's what
it's about, to keep us out.

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Well, you'll see from
some of my reservations

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here on this airplane.

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2,200-- that's my
visual condition--

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on 747-- that's
almost an altitude.

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There is rain on
the glass but it all

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disappears when I look toward
the curve on the world.

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The here and now is clear,
I mean, so we can't see it.

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In an airplane, chance
encounters always ask,

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so what are your poems about?

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They were about their business
and their father's business

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and their monkey's uncle.

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They're about how nothing is
about, they're not about about.

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This answer drives them back
to the snack tray every time.

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Phil Fenstermacher,
for example, turns

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up perfectly clear in my
memory, perfectly attentive

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to his Vasche Qui Rit,
that saddest cheese.

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And not an interlude
while we commiserate,

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it takes what might
be years to open

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life's array of
incidental parcels,

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mysteries of red strips,
tips and strings,

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the tricks of tampons,
lips of band-aids,

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perforated notches
on detergent boxes,

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spatial reasoning
milk-carton quiz,

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and subtle teleologies
of toilet paper.

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Mr. Fenstermacher is
relieved to fill his mind

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with the immediate and
masterable challenge

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of the cheese after his
brief and chastening foray

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into the social arts.

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We part before we part.

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Indeed, we part before we meet.

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I sense the French
philosophers nearby,

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I hope not in the cockpit.

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They are like to rock a plane
and all the singers in it.

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Contrary to popular belief,
the vehicle is one, the tenors,

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many.

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These philosophers are
fond of saying something

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indecipherable meaning
something like a moon.

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We're sunk, we're sunk.

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In our little container, our
story of starting and stopping.

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Just whose story is this anyway?

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Out of my mind,
whose words emerge?

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Is there a self
the self surpasses?

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Look at your glasses,
someone whispers.

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Maybe the world is speckled
by your carelessness

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and not its nature.

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Look at your glasses
if you want to see.

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Who says we're not alone?

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The town down there grows huge,
one tiny runway will engulf us.

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Is the whisperer,
Phil Fenstermacher,

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getting a last word in
before the craft alights?

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I look at my glasses, I see
what you mean, they're a sight.

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