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To Have To
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To Have To is an odd infinitive, in which compulsion and possession meet and share a word together. Both propose, and both accept; to have, because it wants to hold; have to, because it has no will. But then there is no past or present, either: coming's going, in this match. It's odd because they're two at one but endless, in the end, in their capacity to be attached . . . 200 ...