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Quartz opens its eyes in the snow and grows spiky, slipping on the white into its own whiteness: multiplying the mirrors it poses in facets, at angles: white sea urchin from the depths, it is son of the salt that shoots up to heaven, glacial orange blossom of silence, very principle of foam: by virtue of the earth's pride the clarity that awaits me.