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Enormous Leaf
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61 Enormous Leaf What’s real, Whitehead says, is the moment, taking in the past, holding it an instant, passing it on. How to fail? Close the cupboard, hoard up what you were or might have been. It’s gone. Another moment’s waiting, hoping for a twist, a glimpse, a curious smell, the touch of something yearning, melting, touching back, the smallest fresh invention. From the woods, an enormous leaf blows in, rich brown, two feet across. I get up and look. No tree like that, a moment without a past. I finger the drifting thing. ...