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To achieve deep focus nowadays is also to have struck a blow against the dissipation of self it is to have strengthened one's essential position [in life].
Sven Birkerts
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Sven Birkerts
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 21
Essayist
Literary Critic
University Teacher
Pontiac
Michigan
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