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39 <p><span class="line">Say there are no words. Say that we are conjoined</span><span class="line">from birth, or better still, say we are myself.</span><span class="line">—But I still talk to myself, I <a href="i-am.html">build my world</a></span><span class="line">through language, so if we say there are <a href="hymnal.html">no words</a></span><span class="line">this is not enough. Say we are instead some animal,</span><span class="line">or better yet, <a href="plant.html">a plant</a>, or a flagellum motoring</span><span class="line">aimlessly around. (Say that humans are the only things</span><span class="line">that reason. Say that we’re the <a href="movingsideways.html">only things that worry</a>.)</span></p>
40 <p><span class="line">Say that I am separate. To say there’s everything else</span><span class="line">and then there’s me is wrong. Each thing is separate:</span><span class="line"><a href="i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html">there is no whole in the world</a>. Say this is both good</span><span class="line">and bad, or rather, say there is no good or bad but only</span><span class="line">being, <a href="no-nothing.html">more and more of it always added</a>, none taken out</span><span class="line">though it can be forgotten. Say that forgetting</span><span class="line">is a <a href="collage-instrument.html">function of our remembering</a>. (Say that humans only</span><span class="line"><a href="swansong-alt.html">worry about separation</a>. Say that only humans feel it.)</span></p>
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