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uber: for what it's worth, i had in mind more athentian demcoracy than that of the late 18th century in america. simply because of the spatial scenario in athens and the type of direct democracy that this spatial arrangemnet enabled. american, tocqueville notwithstanding, is not the first place i think of when democracy somes up.
autocritique: the opening post was not written from a place of despair--more a kind of head-scratching reaction to a space of unwitting performance. if the post drifted toward despair, it happened as i was writing it. which more than occasionally happens.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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