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Touch, Love, Then Explain: A discussion of “Some Trees” by John Ashbery

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Queer Language

I like how the sentence starting with arranging by chance to meet as far this morning from the world as agreeing with it. And all you called it like weird. I would call it a queer. Yeah, structure. It's not a straight structure, right? And conventional idiomatic English by using the two as comparisons. So he's doubled the comparison and he's created a negativity. He's saying basically we don't agree with the world. Or it can't agree with me. That's a different question.

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