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"& the main thing is we begin with a white sink a whole new language is a temptation."

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"The pleasure of the text is that moment when my body pursues its own ideas—for my body does not have the same ideas I do."

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@filterer François Chen, Chinese Poetic Writing.

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"...and thus the potential to endure."

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"Each sign, independent of sound and invariable, forms a unity of itself, maintaining the potential of its own sovereignty..."

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"Divinatory or utilitarian, these signs are manifest first of all as tracings, emblems, fixed attitudes, visualized rhythms."

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"Signs borne upon bronze vessels, sacred and mundane."

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"...upon the bones of oxen,"

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"Signs incised upon the shells of tortoises,"

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"The Aesthetics of Wandering in the Chinese Literati Garden," Studies in the Histories of Gardens & Designed Landscapes, 2012, Christina Han

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"...commonly translated as 'wandering,' or 'traveling.'"

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"Different modes of experiencing the landscape developed, but chief among them was you..."

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William Pietz, "The Problem of the Fetish, I" RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics No. 9 (Spring, 1985)

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"...by a sudden encounter with the life of the outside world."

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"...as this was made conscious in singular moments of "crisis" in which the identity of the self is called into question, put at risk..."

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"The teardrop or the fetish object 'corresponds' by 'recalling' the amorous flow or sense of being touched within the embodied self..."

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@filterer John Cage in conversation with Joseph H.Mazo (1983), Richard Kostelanetz, Conversing with Cage.

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"If the first composer in history had expressed all nine, what would be left for the rest of us to do?"

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"the four black ones: fear, anger, disgust, sorrow."