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Divine Laughter She used to talk about divine laughter. I took this one of two ways. That the soul would be laughed at even in heaven, not kept out of the silver net exactly but as when the women at a school meeting laughat , not with,—when they don't know how to enter your condition. But the other kind I heard was (this):) in the ripples of fat in the clouds over Bolinas: neither silence nor the little hissing click some shorebirds make when they land but that combination— the egret so like a bride, the bride so like an egret who comes in, who lets the great shimmering take over! And I began to know what she meant by the magic,spreading— 43 ...

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