The World without Imagination
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ota: man is the intelligence of his soil, The sovereign ghost. As such, the SocratesOf snails, musician of pears, principiumAnd lex. Sed quaeritur: is this same wigOf things, this nincompated pedagogue,
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— William Blake
Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?
Or wilt thou go ask the Mole:
Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod?
Or Love in a golden bowl?
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