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Three Diwali parties, using props while speaking, and the unsuspected connection between Chinese philosophy and American poetry

This week, I offer some musings on Diwali, reflections on props I used to give a talk about words in London, a brief introduction to zetetic knowing, and a reading from a book by David Hinton about poetry’s attempt to describe our contact with reality.

Substack is rather extraordinary as a device to encourage people to keep writing and thinking and shari…