The Corrections
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At what point and by what process did the coyote make the decision to sink its teeth into its own flesh? Presumably there first came a period of waiting and weighing. But after that?
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How could people respond to these images if images didn’t secretly enjoy the same status as real things?
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world was fungible only as images. Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.
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As soon as I write a thing down I leave it behind.
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We’ve bumped up to the next level of abstraction because we have too much time and money, is what he says, and he refuses to be a part of it. He wants to eat ‘real’ food and go to ‘real’ places and talk about ‘real’ things like business and science.
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an almost genetic nostalgia for things maritime and things autumnal,
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but it paid this price for its privileges: that the finite and specific animal body of this species contained a brain capable of conceiving the infinite and wishing to be infinite itself.
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So often credulity was asked of you, so seldom could you summon it absolutely,
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With his shyness and his formality and his tyrannical rages he protected his interior so ferociously that if you loved him, as she did, you learned that you could do him no greater kindness than to respect his privacy.