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frame of reference...i've been reading quite a lot about native american views from northern new england--algonquin roughly---and while the translation is sometimes problematic (a function of who is writing or transcribing, what the language was, what english is and can do, etc---because different languages stage relations to the world, and these relations can vary really quite widely) theirs was a world of shape-shifting without particularly clear distinctions between physical and spirit planes in the context of which there was, from what one can tell, no particular problem with people recognizing the same spirit manifestation based on similar situations, triggers, etc. is this an example of repeatability? depends what you mean, doesn't it?
so what do you mean, lasareth?
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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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