What do you think you will gain by reading Spinoza? Spinoza smart man, you dumb man, so what do you think you will gain?
What do you think you will gain by reading Finnegans Wake? You dumb man. You not going to “realize something”, you not going to “understand something”, why you read this?
(Osmosis, says reader! Something may yet occur through osmosis!)
The idea that one could make of oneself a crossroads of ideas that hadn’t yet met — if only any of those roads could touch also that in oneself that is capable of action or articulation.
The idea that this moisture will ultimately reach the deep underground areas where my nature dwells, and with such an invigoration of dew, find myself well set-up for the performance of noble deeds.
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