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This institution	A
perhaps one should say enterprise	B
out of respect for which	C
one says one need not change one's mind	D
about a thing one has believed in	E
requiring public promises	F
of one's intention	A
to fulfill a private obligation	A
I wonder what Adam and Eve	G
think of it by this time	H
this firegilt steel	I
alive with goldenness	F
how bright it shows	F
of circular traditions and impostures	F
committing many spoils	F
requiring all one's criminal ingenuity	J
to avoid	K
Psychology which explains everything	L
explains nothing	L
and we are still in doubt	M
Eve beautiful woman	A
I have seen her	N
when she was so handsome	O
she gave me a start	P
able to write simultaneously	J
in three languages	F
English German and French	Q
and talk in the meantime	H
equally positive in demanding a commotion	A
and in stipulating quiet	R
I should like to be alone	S
to which the visitor replies	F
I should like to be alone	S
why not be alone together	N
Below the incandescent stars	F
below the incandescent fruit	T
the strange experience of beauty	J
its existence is too much	U
it tears one to pieces	F
and each fresh wave of consciousness	F
is poison	A
See her see her in this common world	V
the central flaw	W
in that first crystal fine experiment	X
this amalgamation which can never be more	Y
than an interesting possibility	J
describing it	Z
as that strange paradise	F
unlike flesh gold or stately buildings	F
the choicest piece of my life	A2
the heart rising	L
in its estate of peace	F
as a boat rises	F
with the rising of the water	N
constrained in speaking of the serpent	X
that shed snakeskin in the history of politeness	F
not to be returned to again	B2
that invaluable accident	X
exonerating Adam	O
And he has beauty also	F
it's distressing the O thou	C2
to whom from whom	D2
without whom nothing Adam	O
something feline	E2
something colubrine how true	F2
a crouching mythological monster	N
in that Persian miniature of emerald mines	F
raw silk ivory white snow white	G2
oyster white and six others	F
that paddock full of leopards and giraffes	F
long lemonyellow bodies	F
sown with trapezoids of blue	F2
Alive with words	F
vibrating like a cymbal	H2
touched before it has been struck	I2
he has prophesied correctly	J
the industrious waterfall	J2
the speedy stream	K2
which violently bears all before it	Z
at one time silent as the air	L2
and now as powerful as the wind	D
Treading chasms	F
on the uncertain footing of a spear	M2
forgetting that there is in woman	A
a quality of mind	D
which is an instinctive manifestation	A
is unsafe	N2
he goes on speaking	L
in a formal customary strain	O2
of past states the present state	P2
seals promises	F
the evil one suffered	Q2
the good one enjoys	F
hell heaven	A
everything convenient	X
to promote one's joy	R2
There is in him a state of mind	D
by force of which	C
perceiving what it was not	S2
intended that he should	T2
he experiences a solemn joy	R2
in seeing that he has become an idol	H2
Plagued by the nightingale	U2
in the new leaves	F
with its silence	F
not its silence but its silences	F
he says of it	Z
It clothes me with a shirt of fire	N
He dares not clap his hands	F
to make it go on	V2
lest it should fly off	W2
if he does nothing it will sleep	X2
if he cries out it will not understand	Y2
Unnerved by the nightingale	U2
and dazzled by the apple	H2
impelled by the illusion of a fire	N
effectual to extinguish fire	N
compared with which	C
the shining of the earth	Z2
is but deformity a fire	N
as high as deep as bright as broad	A3
as long as life itself	B3
he stumbles over marriage	C3
a very trivial object indeed	D3
to have destroyed the attitude	E3
in which he stood	T2
the ease of the philosopher	N
unfathered by a woman	A
Unhelpful Hymen	A
a kind of overgrown cupid	F3
reduced to insignificance	F
by the mechanical advertising	L
parading as involuntary comment	G3
by that experiment of Adam's	F
with ways out but no way in	E
the ritual of marriage	C3
augmenting all its lavishness	F
its fiddle head ferns	F
lotus flowers opuntias white dromedaries	F
its hippopotamus	F
nose and mouth combined	D
in one magnificent hopper	N
the crested screamer	N
that huge bird almost a lizard	Q2
its snake and the potent apple	H2
He tells us	F
that for love	H3
that will gaze an eagle blind	D
that is like a Hercules	F
climbing the trees	F
in the garden of the Hesperides	F
from forty five to seventy	J
is the best age	I3
commending it	Z
as a fine art as an experiment	X
a duty or as merely recreation	A
One must not call him ruffian	A
nor friction a calamity	J
the fight to be affectionate	R
no truth can be fully known	A
until it has been tried	J3
by the tooth of disputation	A
The blue panther with black eyes	F
the basalt panther with blue eyes	F
entirely graceful	H2
one must give them the path	K3
the black obsidian Diana	A
who darkeneth her countenance	F
as a bear doth	L3
causing her husband to sigh	M3
the spiked hand	Y2
that has an affection for one	A
and proves it to the bone	A
impatient to assure you	F2
that impatience is the mark of independence	F
not of bondage	C3
Married people often look that way	N3
seldom and cold up and down	A
mixed and malarial	H2
with a good day and bad	O3
When do we feed	D3
We occidentals are so unemotional	H2
we quarrel as we feed	D3
one's self is quite lost	P3
the irony preserved	Q3
in the Ahasuerus t ecirc te agrave t ecirc te banquet	R
with its good monster lead the way	N3
with little laughter	N
and munificence of humor	N
in that quixotic atmosphere of frankness	F
in which Four o'clock does not exist	R3
but at five o'clock	S3
the ladies in their imperious humility	J
are ready to receive you	F2
in which experience attests	F
that men have power	N
and sometimes one is made to feel it	Z
He says what monarch would not blush	T3
to have a wife	A2
with hair like a shaving brush	T3
The fact of woman	A
is not 'the sound of the flute	T
but every poison '	U3
She says 'Men are monopolists	F
of stars garters buttons	F
and other shining baubles'	F
unfit to be the guardians	F
of another person's happiness	F
He says These mummies	F
must be handled carefully	J
'the crumbs from a lion's meal	I
a couple of shins and the bit of an ear'	N
turn to the letter M	V3
and you will find	D
that 'a wife is a coffin '	U3
that severe object	W3
with the pleasing geometry	N
stipulating space and not people	H2
refusing to be buried	D3
and uniquely disappointing	L
revengefully wrought in the attitude	E3
of an adoring child	X3
to a distinguished parent	X
She says This butterfly	M3
this waterfly this nomad	O3
that has 'proposed	O3
to settle on my hand for life '	U3
What can one do with it	O3
There must have been more time	H
in Shakespeare's day	O3
to sit and watch a play	O3
You know so many artists are fools	F
He says You know so many fools	F
who are not artists	F
The fact forgot	O3
that some have merely rights	F
while some have obligations	F
he loves himself so much	U
he can permit himself	B3
no rival in that love	H3
She loves herself so much	U
she cannot see herself enough	Y3
a statuette of ivory on ivory	N
the logical last touch	U
to an expansive splendor	N
earned as wages for work done	A
one is not rich but poor	N
when one can always seem so right	O3
What can one do for them	V3
these savages	F
condemned to disaffect	O3
all those who are not visionaries	F
alert to undertake the silly task	Z3
of making people noble	H2
This model of petrine fidelity	N
who leaves her peaceful husband	O3
only because she has seen enough of him	A4
that orator reminding you	F2
I am yours to command	O3
Everything to do with love is mystery	N
it is more than a day's work	B4
to investigate this science	F
One sees that it is rare	N
that striking grasp of opposites	F
opposed each to the other not to unity	N
which in cycloid inclusiveness	F
has dwarfed the demonstration	A
of Columbus with the egg	C4
a triumph of simplicity	N
that charitive Euroclydon	A
of frightening disinterestedness	F
which the world hates	F
admitting	L
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I am such a cow	C2
if I had a sorrow	N
I should feel it a long time	H
I am not one of those	F
who have a great sorrow	N
in the morning	L
and a great joy at noon	A
which says I have encountered it	O3
among those unpretentious	F
proteg eacute s of wisdom	O
where seeming to parade	O3
as the debater and the Roman	A
the statesmanship	D4
of an archaic Daniel Webster	N
persists to their simplicity of temper	N
as the essence of the matter	N
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'Liberty and union	A
now and forever '	-
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the book on the writing table	H2
the hand in the breast pocket	O3