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Website title: Via Negativa – Purveyors of fine poetry since 2003.

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We were joking about shadow bodies, doppelgängers, our bodies that don't quite feel awake until they have washed their faces and drank at least a cup of strong dark coffee. My doppelgänger ordered a coffee that the student barista made behind the counter, but with nondairy milk because of lactose intolerance and because though I love coffee, too much sometimes trips up the acidi...


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No, that isn't a piece of frilly green lettuce in the aquarium but a slugwhich stores chloroplasts from the algae it feeds on. Its cells continue to photo-synthesize light energy, so it's no longer just the dull color of putty but suddenlythe most fabulous creature in the room. I was never that kind of head-turner, only the girl sitting in the back of the room, the one with t...


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Up, leaving my wife sick as last night in bed. I to my office all the morning, casting up with Captain Cocke their accounts of 500 tons of hemp brought from Riga, and bought by him and partners upon account, wherein are many things worth my knowledge. So at noon to dinner, taking Mr. Hater with me because of losing them, and in the afternoon he and I alone at the office, fini...


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Up and to my office, and there we sat all the morning, and at noon my wife being gone to Chelsey with her brother and sister and Mrs. Lodum, to see the wassell at the school, where Mary Ashwell is, I took home Mr. Pett and he dined with me all alone, and much discourse we had upon the business of the office, and so after dinner broke up and with much ado, it raining hard, whi...


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Explain to me how some people have oldmoney— old meaning venerable and established, and despite all known hindrances, multiplying in the dark. Interest compounds thickly through decades, not musty nor feeble or infirm. When they call to it, it always comes obediently, never protesting or throwing them off when they ride it like a magnificent stallion all over their gree...


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