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'''Interlude'''
<blockquote>
of cosmic order in the universe, not to be too tautologous
<p>"The burden of genius is undeliverable"</p>
It strikes me, as it has struck others, that it's terribly
<p>From a poster, as I once misread it,<br>Marlboro, Vermont, ''c.'' 1976</p>
unlikely to be stored in persistent patterns of activation,
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for "activation" and "persistent" are nigh a contradiction
in terms, as even the author, Cosmo, of the 'I Ching' knew.
How does Cosmo, and by this I mean my pet personification of cosmic order in the universe, not to be too tautologous about it, preserve a memory like that, a goodly fraction of a century later, whether localized to this body that's kept going by this heart, and whether by common assumption still more localized to the spongey fibres of this brain, or not?
It strikes me, as it has struck others, that it's terribly unlikely to be stored in persistent patterns of activation, for ''activation'' and ''persistent'' are nigh a contradiction in terms, as even the author, Cosmo, of the ''I Ching'' knew.
But that was then, this is now, so let me try to say it planar.
But that was then, this is now, so let me try to say it planar.
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