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Today’s Poem: I would I might forget that I am I

Today’s Poem: I would I might forget that I am I

George Santayana’s self-consciousness

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Antonie van Steenwinckel, Vanitas Portrait of the Painter, c. 1681 (Wikimedia Commons)

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