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"Wow. Hans is having such an intense time! and Mann is really weaving all his elements together in a tight web of signification. And I get to feel like a genius because I think I’m catching some of what he’s up to, as it happens, and pat myself on the back when he takes another step along the path I noticed." — Feb 27, 2026 07:33AM
"Wow. Hans is having such an intense time! and Mann is really weaving all his elements together in a tight web of signification. And I get to feel like a genius because I think I’m catching some of what he’s up to, as it happens, and pat myself on the back when he takes another step along the path I noticed." — Feb 27, 2026 07:33AM
If you stick with me, you see this is it. A potter with a crooked foot, but I think if you were with me, I might be something more. I think I’ve never had anything to work for, nothing to believe in, really, and a man needs that more than
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