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. . . any one episode, or even moment, in a person__ life is so complex, with so many layers of past and present, desire and indifference, drift and drive, consciousness and unconsciousness, that language is the best means we__e found of approaching that kind of complexity.
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. . . any one episode, or even moment, in a person__ life is so complex, with so many layers of past and present, desire and indifference, drift and drive, consciousness and unconsciousness, that language is the best means we__e found of approaching that kind of complexity.

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