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The Second Half of the Survey
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T H E S E C O N D H A L F O F T H E S U R V E Y They come to your office with winking tablets on fire, they bring threads from the legend, they wear black, they don’t decline the death talk. You are tired. Spring revises its history. On a cliff, the new calf stands after an hour. On a tower of ruptured stone, the worm crawls through a sentence—if you could take your strength, like that! Our lord of literature obliquely rests like a dancer in her box of limits—most everything no human eye shall see—: an “if only”! immeasurable— The student sits before you reading aloud, & when the letters have recovered, they make a blind doctrine of sequence. Meaning is their Caliban, a search removed from history. Phenomena request your attention: out the window: an ecstasy of now— 8 8 ...