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And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.

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I was an adjunct. I never got tenure, never had it. I was a professor, though. But I never got tenure. I never really wanted tenure, to tell you the truth. Really wasn't - the guys who got - the tenured people were some of, like, the least interesting. And they were people I didn't really like very much anyway.
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