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Composition has the great virtue of referring to music as well as to compost. Politics can then be defined anew as the progressive composition of the common world.

The bacteria living in this medium extract oxygen from the nitrates that result from excreted waste, and they feed on carbon obtained from alcohol. This is provided to them in the form of vodka, purchased wholesale in ten-liter containers. Pure alcohol is not necessary; the carbon content in vodka (roughly forty percent) is sufficient.

The personification of nature, a modern Western approach, conceals the multiplicity if elements encompassed within the unity of the person. Personality masks the collective; it reduces it to an individual.

Taste is perhaps the one sense that most clearly calls upon the middle voice. Tasting is a matter not only of pleasure but also of discernment, and, in order to discern actively, one must have agreed to let oneself be affected. Knowing how to taste is an integral part of the adventure of life in a world that requires of us an ability to discern between what feeds us, what poisons us, and what heals us.