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... silence grants violence permission . We sacrifice our daughters to protect our own beloved innocence . In the language of violence , every speech is a solipsism and silence a conspirator . The true poet gives up the self . The I of my ...
... silence grants violence permission . We sacrifice our daughters to protect our own beloved innocence . In the language of violence , every speech is a solipsism and silence a conspirator . The true poet gives up the self . The I of my ...
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... silence grants permission to the child molester . Because we have not learned how to name things properly , the batterer beats his child or lover in public , and we stand to one side , crippled inside , fearful and guilty . If we really ...
... silence grants permission to the child molester . Because we have not learned how to name things properly , the batterer beats his child or lover in public , and we stand to one side , crippled inside , fearful and guilty . If we really ...
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... silence turns his inner self to stone . His inability to translate his terror into sound betrays his own heart's interests . This inability to articulate one's experi- ence was a common theme of poetry in the 1960s when almost every ...
... silence turns his inner self to stone . His inability to translate his terror into sound betrays his own heart's interests . This inability to articulate one's experi- ence was a common theme of poetry in the 1960s when almost every ...
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The Necessity to Speak | 3 |
Orthodox Heterodox Paradox | 15 |
The Degradation of Money | 27 |
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