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— 48 —


The supreme importance
of this nameless spectacle

sped me by them
without a word —

Why bother where I went?
for I went spinning on the

four wheels of my car
along the wet road until

I saw a girl with one leg
over the rail of a balcony

When in the condition of imaginative suspense only will the writting have reality, as explained partially in what preceeds — Not to attempt, at that time, to set values on the word being used, according to presupposed measures, but to write down that which happens at that time —

To perfect the ability to record at the moment when the consciousness is enlarged by the sympathies and the unity of understanding which the imagination gives, to practice skill in recording the force moving, then to know it, in the largeness of its proportions —