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at a guinea a visit becomes / more tangible to himself / the exile / mechanism / he learns / is built / to the same osseous structure / shares / identical phenomena / with those / populating the Island / that segregated / from his apprehension / moves / a universe / of unceasing / energies / for the biological / explorer's introspection / His body / becomes the target of his speculation / His brain / ravenous for informative food / spins / cobwebs / on the only available / branching out of facts / clings / to the visceral / items / he has heard mentioned / until they ache / under mesmeric concentration / Exodus / discovers his nerves / as once / Mankind / in pathological mysticism / believed / itself / to have discovered / its soul / David's daughter's doweries / and olive-eyes / virgins capitalized / to tantalize!
Jehovah's tailor / sets up in business for himself / however / Some queer / marital independence on the English air / keeping him bachelor / While through / stock quotations / and Latin prescriptions / for physic / filters the lyric / aroma of the rose / Exodus knows / no longer father / or brother / or the God of the Jews, / it is his to choose / finance or / romance of the rose / English Rose / Early / English / everlasting / quadrate Rose / paradox -- Imperial / trimmed with some travestied flesh / tinted with bloodless duties / dewed / with Lipton's teas / and grimed / with crack-packed / herd-housing / petalling / the prim gilt / penetralia / of a lustre scioned / core-crown;