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XVII And I. re-read Ex. 26 through 31 although when he left the Cosmos—just as they were molding the calf— he felt ashamed for he had ridiculed history, although he had two hearts, Red Emma, for example, one of them, Voltaire, par exemple, the other, and when he faced the music walking east at 5 a.m., wasn’t it Kipling? wasn’t Brooklyn “China ’cross the bay” ? weren’t the colors the same colors, didn’t he love the rose most of all? and didn’t he bow from the waist and hit himself with the knuckle of his thumb against his forehead just ten minutes before and bend his knees and kind of spring and soar above the others with that newfound tenor voice of his? |
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