Logos and logic, crystal hypothesis, Incipit and a form to speak the word And every latent double in the word, Beau linguist. - Wallace Stevens

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Logos and logic, crystal hypothesis, Incipit and a form to speak the word And every latent double in the word, Beau linguist.

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About Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens (2 October 1879 – 2 August 1955) was an American modernist poet and businessman.

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