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The whole white world is ours.

Hilda Doolittle

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Words were her plague and words were her redemption.
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Passionate grave thought, belief enhanced, ritual returned and magic.
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Love, why have you sought the horde of spearsmen, why the tent Achilles pitched beside the river-ford?
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My eye-balls are glass, my limbs marble, my face fixed in its marble mask.
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