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book/content/poet-and-mystic.tex

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+\end{leftcolumn}
+\begin{rightcolumn*}
+  \input{content/induction.tex}
+\end{rightcolumn*}
+\begin{leftcolumn}
+
 \noindent \emph{Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false. For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead. Mysticism consists in the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.}
 
 \begin{ally}
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 \end{ally}
 \newpage
 
+\end{leftcolumn}
+\begin{rightcolumn*}
+  \begin{verse}[1.01\textwidth]
+    \small
+      Seven flies circle,\\
+      Trimmers chatter down the block:\\
+      The hum of summer.
+
+      {\fontspec{Merriweather Sans Italic}[Scale=0.9,Color=444444FF,Ligatures=TeX] \vin I listen, silent, waiting,\\
+      \vin Breathing in sun and out shade.}
+
+      Fig leaves like fingers\\
+      paw feebly through still hot air\\
+      and come up with naught.
+
+      {\fontspec{Merriweather Sans Italic}[Scale=0.9,Color=444444FF,Ligatures=TeX] \vin Too early for fruit to droop,\\
+      \vin we must wait past midsummer.}
+
+      And I walk until\\
+      all I can hear is the wind\\
+      among the fir trees.
+
+      {\fontspec{Merriweather Sans Italic}[Scale=0.9,Color=444444FF,Ligatures=TeX] \vin Summer breezes bear away\\
+      \vin all the choices of years past.}
+
+      Drink deep of death-thoughts\\
+      as the day dies with a yawn ---\\
+      the year starts to fade.
+    \end{verse}
+\end{rightcolumn*}
+\begin{leftcolumn}
+
 \noindent How can I capture that essence of stillness? How can I become nothing?
 
 \begin{ally}
@@ -203,7 +241,6 @@ It's about breathing in for the count of four, holding for the count of two, bre
 So that you can disappear entirely.
 \end{ally}
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 \begin{ally}
 Why this? Why now?
 \end{ally} % Why after your dad?
@@ -535,3 +572,4 @@ You tried.
 \begin{ally}
 It's not, but it's important that you have tried.
 \end{ally}
+\newpage