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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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29.11.02

{what gets lost, what they trained us to miss, is these are moments, and only moments, not a thing in and of itself, like the homeless, the way we see them as a thing, like a profession, but it's only a little period of time then something happens, something changes, they go somewhere become something else, are gone, the dystopic stories, the dream landscapes of post-apocalypse, we learn to see that as a place, but it's a moment, one of a continuous flow of moments, and all these moments too, become something else, we think we recognize the true thing through the image but really we stop there, at the surface, as we were trained to, to not see, to miss what really happens.}

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