“What's the most important thing in the world? Walking the walk.”
Jack Terricloth (1970)
What Would Jack Do?
“What chieftain, walking by himself, crying
Most miserable, most victorious,”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
Context: p>What chieftain, walking by himself, crying
Most miserable, most victorious,Does not see these separate figures one by one,
And yet see only one, in his old coat,
His slouching pantaloons, beyond the town,Looking for what was, where it used to be?</p
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