We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness. — Robert Kelly
We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness. — Robert Kelly
We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness. — Robert Kelly
We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness. — Robert Kelly
We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness. — Robert Kelly
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We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness.

— Robert Kelly
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