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" Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) I concentrate toward them that are nigh, I wait on the door-slab. "
Leaves of Grass - Page 68
by Walt Whitman - 1883 - 382 pages
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The Cambridge Introduction to Walt Whitman

M. Jimmie Killingsworth - 2007 - 123 pages
...concepts to contain the fullness of being. "Do I contradict myself?" he famously asks in Section 5 1 : "Very well then I contradict myself, / (I am large, I contain multitudes)" (246). Called from his reveries by the "spotted hawk" that "complains of my gab and my loitering" in...
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Self Storage: A Novel

Gayle Brandeis - 2008 - 306 pages
...snuff the sidle of evening. (Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.) Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict...before I am gone? will you prove already too late? The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a...
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Measuring Metabolic Rates: A Manual for Scientists

John R. B. Lighton - 2008 - 216 pages
...arthropods is so huge that it is impossible for phylogenetic fine-tuning to erase it. As Walt Whitman said, "Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes." Leave an Audit Trail Your experimental work is important. It adds to the sum of human knowledge. Do...
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Mental Health Services Today and Tomorrow: Perspective on policy and practice

Charles Kaye, Michael Howlett - 2008 - 188 pages
...broadcast different messages which compete and conflict. It may be understandable for Walt Whitman to say: 'Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. (I am large, I contain multitudes.)' From: 'Song of Myself But governments work on a national canvas with greater impact - and contradictions...
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Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape Our ...

Bill Emmott - 2008 - 360 pages
...be expected. It brings to mind the best-known lines by one of Americas greatest poets, Walt Whitman: Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) No Indian, nor anyone who visits India, can be in any doubt that it contains multitudes. It is also...
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How Can I Keep from Singing?: The Ballad of Pete Seeger

David King Dunaway - 2009 - 560 pages
...contradictions are pretty much like our own. As Walt Whitman, nineteenth- century poet and patriot, wrote, "Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. (I am large, I contain multitudes.)" By presenting his ideals to the public as he performed for them, Seeger raised the bar on himself....
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Sporting Lives: Metaphor and Myth in American Sports Autobiographies

James W. Pipkin - 2008 - 175 pages
...substance, Rodman appropriates and caricatures in a postmodern way the Whitmanesque celebration of the self: "Do I contradict myself? / Very well then I contradict myself, / I am large, I contain multitudes."6 The blueprint Rodman draws for Bad as I Wanna Be combines traditional American autobiographical...
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Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays

Susan Belasco, Ed Folsom, Kenneth M. Price - 2007 - 504 pages
...the poem's major effects. "Do I contradict myself?" the gender-inclusive speaker asks, further on: Very well then .... I contradict myself; I am large .... I contain multitudes. (55) Almost all the poem's readers have remarked on the speaker's egotism and grandiosity — Leo Marx...
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