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Anecdote of Men by the Thousand

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138:) and then, when I find I cannot express myself, he says, 'You see, your faculty of language was localized in that lobe.' No doubt it was, and so, if he had filched my inkstand, I should not have been able to continue my discussion until I had got another. Yea, the very thoughts would not come to me. So my faculty of discussion is equally localized in my inkstand." (Peirce, 119:, and finally a blossoming of the poem's idea in the image of a woman of Lhassa. That interpretation overlooks that the "idea" is expressed as reported speech, however, and fails to identify who "he" is (it is naively assumed to be the poet). 99:
Stevens recognized that his poems were a visible expression of (an invisible element of) his North American place. This would remain true even if the poet were to succeed in overcoming locality, as Crispin attempts to do in
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Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs
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The next lines in the poem are anticipatory assertions, and then two
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Cy Est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et Les Unze Mille Vierges
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Thousand 315:Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores 136:nihil animale a me alienum puto 82:The dress of a woman of Lhassa, 72:The mandoline is the instrument 38:Anecdote of Men by the Thousand 511:Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock 406:Floral Decorations for Bananas 287:Nuances of a Theme by Williams 1: 686:The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad 525:The Virgin Carrying a Lantern 336:Homunculus et la Belle Etoile 399:The Apostrophe to Vincentine 350:From the Misery of Don Joost 343:The Comedian as the Letter C 102:The Comedian as the Letter C 45: Of the external world. 665:Peter Quince at the Clavier 651:To the One of Fictive Music 623:Colloquy with a Polish Aunt 455:The Place of the Solitaires 52:There are men of a province 804: 714:Sea Surface Full of Clouds 546:Six Significant Landscapes 371:The Worms at Heaven's Gate 238:The Plot Against the Giant 788:Poetry by Wallace Stevens 211: 61:There are men whose words 56:There are men of a valley 26:'s first book of poetry, 504:Tea at the Palaz of Hoon 490:The Emperor of Ice-Cream 483:Depression Before Spring 434:Of the Surface of Things 364:Last Looks at the Lilacs 357:O Florida, Venereal Soil 294:Metaphors of a Magnifico 69:In the place of toucans. 67:As the cackle of toucans 280:Le Monocle de Mon Oncle 224:Invective Against Swans 16:Poem by Wallace Stevens 693:The Death of a Soldier 588:Cortège for Rosenbloom 273:The Load Of Sugar-Cane 106:Charles Sanders Peirce 91: 54:Who are that province. 142:v. 7, paragraph 366). 63:Are as natural sounds 567:Palace of the Babies 553:Bantam in Pine-Woods 58:Who are that valley. 735:Anatomy of Monotony 560:Anecdote of the Jar 532:Stars at Tallapoosa 462:The Weeping Burgher 301:Ploughing on Sunday 252:Domination of Black 322:Fabliau of Florida 266:The Ordinary Women 765: 764: 742:The Public Square 413:Anecdote of Canna 117:leading questions 50:Who are the East. 795: 728:Lunar Paraphrase 497:The Cuban Doctor 329:Doctor of Geneva 192: 185: 178: 169: 143: 140:Collected Papers 132: 803: 802: 798: 797: 796: 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Index

Wallace Stevens
Harmonium

The Comedian as the Letter C
Charles Sanders Peirce
Theory
leading questions
Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce
Arthur Burks
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Harmonium
Wallace Stevens
Earthy Anecdote
Invective Against Swans
The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage
The Plot Against the Giant
Infanta Marina
Domination of Black
The Snow Man
The Ordinary Women
The Load Of Sugar-Cane
Le Monocle de Mon Oncle
Nuances of a Theme by Williams
Metaphors of a Magnifico
Ploughing on Sunday
Cy Est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et Les Unze Mille Vierges
Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores
Fabliau of Florida

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