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The Starry World of Our Desires, Part IX
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The Starry World of Our Desires, Part IX

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May 04, 2018
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This is a subtle point worthy of more examination.

What I do not wish for — what I don’t care about, don’t see, or have little or no concern over — represents a vast, in fact unimaginably vast, piece of territory, because I am in a state of objective anguish, or narrowness.

This very narrowness is created by my desires; and, in a nod to contempora…

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