"I open my scuttle at night and..." - Quote by Walt Whitman
I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems, All all I see multiplied as high as I can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems. Wider and wider they spread, expanding, always expanding, Outward and outward and forever outward.
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“I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.”
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