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| | On "I Went Into the Maverick bar" |
 | | The poet takes a stance against duality or dualistic thinking, which is of course an action which proceeds from dualistic mind. |
 | | The reader is expected to understand the poets moment of awareness, to sympathize with the poets momentary sympathy, and ultimately to concur with the poets anti-dualistic dualism. |
 | | Gary Snyder writes poems which capture, value, present dualistic moments for their own sake, since it would be dualistic to segregate samsara (Buddhist hellclinging to life, objects, concepts, etc., out of fear of sunyata, the void) from nirvana. |
| www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/s_z/snyder/maverick.htm (1306 words) |
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