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 lives anew. It lives as pictures only can : by their power TO ESCAPE ILLUSION and stand between man and nature as saints once stood between man and the sky — their reality in such work, say, as that of Juan Gris

No man could suffer the fragmentary nature of his understanding of his own life —

Whitman's proposals are of the same piece with the modern trend toward imaginative understanding of life. The largeness which he interprets as his identity with the least and the greatest about him, his "demo- cracy" represents the "vigor of his imaginative life." What about all this writing ? O Kiki " 0 Miss Margaret Jarvis The backhandspring 1 : clean clean clean : yes.. New- York