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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica

Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.

Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors


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13.11.02

...that take a wheel wherever they will

and furrows any wheel will follow



and so I asked him too soon You


got it from here, Sir? and he had



to answer No, please get me over


there: there, some sort of border



under my awareness, some mark


on the blank brick walk.....


Dan Chiasson
The Afterlife of Objects

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