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==The Cactus Language : Semantics==

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| ~~Alas, and yet what 'are' you, my written and painted thoughts!~~

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~~| It is not long ago that you were still so many-coloured,~~

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~~| young and malicious, so full of thorns and hidden~~

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~~| spices you made me sneeze and laugh -- and now?~~

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~~| You have already taken off your novelty and~~

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~~| some of you, I fear, are on the point of~~

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~~| becoming truths: they already look so~~

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~~| immortal, so pathetically righteous,~~

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~~| so boring!~~

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~~| Friedrich Nietzsche~~, '~~Beyond Good~~ and ~~Evil'~~, ~~Paragraph 296.~~

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<p>Alas, and yet what ''are'' you, my written and painted thoughts! It is not long ago that you were still so many-coloured, young and malicious, so full of thorns and hidden spices you made me sneeze and laugh — and now? You have already taken off your novelty and some of you, I fear, are on the point of becoming truths: they already look so immortal, so pathetically righteous, so boring!</p>

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| ~~Friedrich~~ Nietzsche,

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| align="right" | — Nietzsche, ''Beyond Good and Evil'', [Nie-2, ¶ 296]

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|'Beyond Good and Evil~~: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future~~',

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~~| trans. by R.J. Hollingdale, intro. by Michael Tanner~~,

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| ~~Penguin Books, London, UK, 1973, 1990.~~

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<pre>

In this Subsection, I describe a particular semantics for the

painted cactus language, telling what meanings I aim to attach

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