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American Samizdat: Walt Whitman's America

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We come now to the final five days. One doesn’t see the world turn on its axis, doesn’t feel it, but it does. Without our awareness of its happening, the earth’s orientation toward the universe is changed, instant by instant, when all seemed, in illusory sameness, unchanging. Come Tues…