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PARTISAN REVIEW
I never liked his beard. I liked it-too.
You almost had me arguing that the man is brilliant.
You mustn't talk when you clench your fist.
Or don't clench things when you talk.
"Your justification finally is not moral nor can it be poetic.
Partly it's biological.
"Then there are the classes, the Class Struggle.
"Dialectical Materialism."
It's okay about that dialectical materialism, only don't clench
things when you talk.
"And nuances!"
What about nuances?
"I don't like them and they aren't dialectical.".
I know what got YOU sore.
"Rubbish
!"
It was that woman.
"Liar! "
She had flowers in her hair and it was spring, we were not mar-
ried and we were laughing together.
I am young in the sense that I lean forward.
Partly it's biological, death has begun for me.
Only don't clench things
When you talk
Talk
