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The Unifying Principle
Ramshackles, archipelagoes, loose constellations are less fierce, subsidiary centers, with the attenuations of interstices, roughing the salience, jarring the outbreak of too insistent commonalty: a board, for example, not surrendering the rectitude of its corners, the island of the oaks an admonishment to pines, underfigurings (as of the Bear) that take identity on: this motion is against the grinding oneness of seas, hallows distinction into the specific: but less lovely, too, for how is the mass to be amassed, by what sanction neighbor touch neighbor, island bear resemblance, how are distinction's hard lines to be dissolved (and preserved): what may all the people turn to, the old letters, the shaped, characteristic peak generations of minds have deflected and kept: a particular tread that sometimes unweaves, taking more shape on, into dance: much must be tolerated as out of timbre, out of step, as being not in its time or mood (the hiatus of the unconcerned) and much room provided for the wretched to find caves to ponder way off in: what then can lift the people and only when they choose to rise or what can make them want to rise, though business prevents: the unifying principle will be a phrase shared, an old cedar long known, general wind-shapes in a usual sand: those objects single, single enough to be uninterfering, multiple by the piling on of shared sight, touch, saying: when it's found the people live the small wraths of ease.