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The difficulty of translation provides a topic for conversation.

It is good to thank NAME and to sing to your name “Exalted.”

Every tour is based upon strangeness.

It is good to sing and play instruments, actual musical instruments and ones understood allegorically or metaphysically.

The addition of strings beyond a single octave, for example, represents the ability of birds and insects to see into the ultraviolet spectrum.

See the darting nectar-bird wearing an insect’s skin?

I was breathing something sweet when I saw it, something intense like a tree with flowers.

I saw the flower in a digital rendering and a computer-enhanced photograph but I couldn’t find the tree.

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