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"But there is a sense in which all such well-wrought urns contain the ashes of a Phoenix. The urns are not meant for memorial purposes only . . . The phoenix rises from its ashes; or ought to rise; but it will not arise for all our mere sifting and measuring the ashes . . . We must be prepared to accept the paradox of the imagination itself . . ." This is already a banger.