counterpoint
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What holds the earth swinging in space is first, the great dynamic attraction to the sun, and then counterposing assertion of independence, singleness, which is polarized in the moon.
From Fantasia of the Unconscious by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
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The Things They Carried
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Week 5: New Technology
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The Gilded Ones
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