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Actually surreal to see what language is capable of... How can someone mortal write this? The figure and words feel eternal, the poetic vision just as brilliant today as what I imagine it was like when first written... I just finished "Songs of Myself" and what do you mean there's more? Most people—no, EVERY WRITER IN THE WORLD—would kill to have come up with something so transcendental... I am astounded, honestly.
— Jun 06, 2025 08:47AM
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This is what language was invented for—the creation of something SO spectacular you can only marvel bewilderedly at how someone human nad not divine could have ever constructed these sentences and thought of these words and connected all thought, emotion, philosophy, mysticism, and politics with such reverance... I am so utterly enraptured by this book already, I fear reaching the end. I do not want this to end.
— Jun 04, 2025 12:53AM
This is what language was invented for—the creation of something SO spectacular you can only marvel bewilderedly at how someone human nad not divine could have ever constructed these sentences and thought of these words and connected all thought, emotion, philosophy, mysticism, and politics with such reverance... I am so utterly enraptured by this book already, I fear reaching the end. I do not want this to end.
