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'Want' is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But 'needs,' from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittlebush in a dry wind.... [W]hen it seems difficult merely to survive and be happy about it, the condition of my thought tastes as simple as this: let me be a good animal today. (p. 13)