the Independent Repetition A Human Strategy, aphorism 389

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The velleity, the Independent Repetition, must be invited into the foreground.  It comes when permitted but will not be manipulated.  All that is required is the elimination of every extremity.  To desire any single thing more than the ascending repetition is to stop that repetition and fly apart into chaos.  We may appear very much like the old ascetics, yet the art of repetition is not an act of self-infliction or atonement: to delight in every good thing ... to find it distilled and bottled into a quintessence is our goal, and for this we must crave above all other things the exalting repetition.



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