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The Meaning of Death
I remember once I was looking in the open air and one of those glorious little fissled down things came. It looked as if it was struggling to get away just as if you caught an insect by one leg like a daddy long legs or something of that kind. The structure of this thing which in cooperation with the existence of wind enables it to move like an animal but using the wind's effort not its own. So in just this way there is the meaning of death is that kind of intelligence which without your using very much effort gets everything to cooperate with you. This is a feminine art, a feminine. A woman who really wants a lover does not pursue him because then most men feel
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