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The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Human
Balanced
Humans
Tension
Ooze
Men
Clarity
Androgyny
Gender
Dialectic
Structure
Dialectics
Lines
Slack
Possible
Dissolves
Makes
Narcissism

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