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Looking at this insolent earth,
you hear the first battle cry of our species-
trap it under a rock
and together, screaming, attack
and destroy it, as if killing a mammoth.


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At eighteen you don't think about memories,
you tell them.


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At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot
and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder.


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Born: January 15, 1902
Died: June 3, 1963 (aged 61)
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