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a-pp-roach
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thick.entanglement;.one's.body.is.a.mess,.suppurating,.gouged.and.gnawed,
crossings.and.isolated.activations,.the.apparent.motion,.texture,.shape...
'what.on.earth?.what's.happening?'.i'm.concerned.with.what.happens.beneath
the.surface,.the.coding,.the.treehopper:.slightly.larger:.what.constitutes
the.human:.the.explosion.ordinance:.incipient.phenomenology.of.approach.
circumventing..what.is.an.approach?.how.does.approach.manifest.itself.to
the.subject?.what.is.the.domain.of.the.approach?.what.is.a.domain?.what.is
part.of.a.critical.sifting.apparatus..relevance.is.already.a.complex.and
noise..as.with.approach,.it.always.a.detour.in.this.regard..the.wonder.is
a.washing,.determinate.sublime,.approach.across.the.edge.of.the.theory.
diachronic/synchronic.approaches.-.space-time.slices..diffusion.of
approach.is.always.already.self-critical,.self-critique;.the.critique.of
the.domain..the.phenomenology.of.approach.implies.a.weakness.of.the.case.
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approach.of.the.domain..to.the.extent.of.a.phenomenology.of.approach,.the
domain.is.asymptotic,.never.fully.approached..the.neighborhood.is
faltering.data,.anomaly..the.phenomenology.of.approach.embeds.withdrawal,
just.as.withdrawal.implies.approach..every.introjection,.a.projection;.and
one.takes.increasing.chances.as.danger.apparently.recedes.by.virtue.of
knowledge..how.to.approach.a.snake.or.alligator;.how.to.ward.off.deerflies
and.no-see-ums..an.approach.is.always.a.detour.(thus.the.sides,.top.and
intention.that.one.approaches,.that.one.makes.the.approach,.that.it.is.is
the.escape.or.leakage.of.the.phenomenology.of.approach.into.profession,.my
boundaries,.body,.disappear,.absent.themselves,.among.the.thickets)...in
some.of.my.photography,.I've.teetered.or.approached.the.position,.say,.of
a.woman,.but.it.is.a.fictivity,.an.approach.itself,.tending.towards.the
intention.to.investigate,.or.at.least.approach.-.to.testings.of.deeper
times.
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tilapia.approach,.walking.the.depths.of.the.slough.calling.forth
grasshopper.osprey,.hungered,.making.things...under.the.coot,.testings.of
deeper.times,.tilapia.approach,.walking.the.depths.of.the.slough.
lacewings.mating.-.somehow.to.approach,.partake?.....deeper.lizards
sleeping.or.comatose.on.leaves,.imperial.mosquito-fish..refuge.in.leopard
frog..refuge.in.apple-snail..refuge.in.crow,.refuge.in.spatterdock,
pondapple.night-blooming.blossoms.
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thick.entanglement;.one's.body.is.a.mess,.suppurating,.gouged.and.gnawed.-
it.really.sits.there,.nothing.happens.to.it....
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