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Old 10-24-2023, 01:42 PM   #352 (permalink)
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"That was then, this is now?"

I speculate it was that it was seeing other's error should be a reminder that we're all wrong about something.

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https://iwp.uiowa.edu › whitmanweb › en › writings › song-of-myself › section-51
Section 51 | IWP WhitmanWeb - University of Iowa
"/ Very well then I contradict myself, / (I am large, I contain multitudes.)" Whitman is recasting one of Ralph Waldo Emerson's central ideas: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. . . .
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