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How broad the space between the stars! But how much greater the distance Between the things around us, from which we learn! Someone, for instance a child, … and another one next to him-, How unspeakably remote from one another! Fate measures us perhaps with the breadth of being, Which is strange to us; Just think how much distance there is between a girl and a man When she is avoiding him or thinking of him. Everything is distant -, and the circle never closes anywhere. Look at the odd face of the fish staring out of its dish On the cheerfully laid table. Fish don’t speak. … Or at least so we believe. Who knows? But is there perhaps somewhere at the farthest limits where we Might speak what the fish would have said, but without them? ![]() ![]() |
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