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Dave BontaContemplative

An ordinary clock at school made so much of that the truth and I begin to be impertinent! Though I honor learning, let it be a caution to myself— since it has such an effect on others— not to master too much. To stay with them in their good night as a witness.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 17 September 1662.

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