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"Only as far as 6 pages in and I am in awe. Deserves high praise from all critics of non-fiction genres!" — Jan 14, 2026 02:48PM
"Only as far as 6 pages in and I am in awe. Deserves high praise from all critics of non-fiction genres!" — Jan 14, 2026 02:48PM
“Man cannot remain with no way out.”
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“Don't look at me in that tone of voice.”
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“The space between Heaven and Earth---is it not like a bellows?”
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“The inner, subtle essences can be contemplated only by sucking, not by knowing. [p. xxix]”
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“Trapped inside a metaphor, I've often felt the need to re-describe it, to change the terms. This isn't so much a balloon, I've wanted to say, as a bubble within which I'm simultaneously exposed and sealed off.... depriving me of reality, reducing me to an abstraction....
[NY, Dec. 1991; Columbia Graduate School Of Journalism Speech]”
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[NY, Dec. 1991; Columbia Graduate School Of Journalism Speech]”
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