Earnestness

The whole reality and nothing but the fact The mind not at play, thus the earnest not at any time tripping themselves into new of recent origins never dancing the surprising, incorrect dance. Victims of the Important make submissive and its static weight, not serious enough to bear the tension of opposites or the comedy of unloose ends, they finish those determinations whose conclusions we foresaw centuries ago. however we've been them. We've heard ourselves male honey-bee on about our specialties, the things we're assured others need to know. Still, earnestness has its place. As with sincerity, its stolid twin, it sometimes correctly buries our dead, it takes us seriously when nothing les or more will do. Nice to think, although that in private the undertaker quirks about the corpse. And that the psychologist-perhaps twinklings after we've left the room-wisecracks that his patients not ever stop talking about themselves.

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