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lives anew. It lives as pictures only can : by their
power TO ESCAPE ILLUSION and stand between
man and nature as saints once stood between man
and the sky — their reality in such work, say, as
that of Juan Gris
No man could suffer the fragmentary nature of his understanding of his own life —
Whitman's proposals are of the same piece with the modern trend toward imaginative understanding of life. The largeness which he interprets as his identity with the least and the greatest about him, his "demo- cracy" represents the "vigor of his imaginative life."
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What about all this writing ?
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0 Miss Margaret Jarvis
The backhandspring
1 : clean
clean
clean : yes.. New- York
