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| | Jean Toomer's Epiphany | The Niggerati Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11) |
 | | His ordinary self, with its feelings, desires, and confusions, had disappeared for the duration of the experience. |
 | | Somehow, feeling that he was an intrinsic part of the extended universe, he also could closely observe the people walking---mechanically over the earth's surface, as little in touch with it as if it were a large metal shell, as little in touch with their bodies as if they were robots. |
 | | The center of this feeling of responsibility began burning within him like a bright sun, the overpowering force of what he called "Being-Conscience"---as different, he says, from ordinary conscience as his new level of consciousness was from the "normal" somnambulist state. |
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