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“Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.”

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“Objectivism is the getting rid of the lyrical interference of the individual as ego, of the “subject” and his soul, that peculiar presumption by which western man has interposed himself between what he is as a creature of nature (with certain instructions to carry out) and those other creations of nature which we may, with no derogation, call objects. For…

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All that matters is that the thing be the thing of the thing.

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