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dk--i havent much time at the moment---
you cant determine my intent in writing this sentence.
you could rake through the piles of paper i drag around with me living space to living space, you could talk to folk who know me in 3-d world and you still coudlnt do it.
you could speculate about it.
you could use your assumptions to try to generate statements that would read as though they accounted for intent as a way of accounting for cause--but the links you would make are entirely a function of your assumptions.
and i am alive now--so far as i can tell at least.
if you cant work out intent in a messageboard post by a contemporary of yours, how can you possibly imagine that you'd be able to do it relative to the framers of the constitution, who have been dead 200 years or so?
arguments about intent are speculative.
(and they are usually uninteresting.)
more to say but no time to say it--gotta go.
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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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