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mighty or unmighty roots lend themselves to infinite possibilities of composing one and a thousand indelible poems) towards the bewitching language of the great beyond, those mysterious and missing propositions of the Absolute e.man.ating and exceeding the entireness of the cosmoverse? Or is she a sensory experience of pure electrifying in-ergy? 3⁄4 and then, of course, there is me, I, myself, because I am creating this simulacra (essay), with the mere pandemonium and feelers of words (as Erdrich), a sort of meta- fiction concatenated, perhaps, to the Stone of Heraclea3. Who am I (perhaps a virtual ebb?) to violate Fleur’s enigmatic inviolability with the rugged hands of words? Who is she but a wondrous caress in the imprecise winds of boundlessness 3⁄4
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so that we may dream or aspire to remotely encounter Fleur’s “essence” in the intentional vacuums of this futile essay either like a bloom in absence or through Nanapush’s failings (like everyone’s) when he realizes his own vice and the wearing out of “linguistic perceptions” (as I have):
“Talk is an old man’s last vice. I opened my mouth and wore out the boy’s ears, but that is not my fault. I shouldn’t have been caused to live so long, shown
3 Benjamin Jowett, trans. The Dialogues of Plato. Ion. Great Books of the Western World. Volume 7. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. 1952. 142–148.
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