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 | | Who steals my purse steals trash; but then again, the Rosetta Stone was trash, even though it virtually bore the very alphabet of being. |
 | | Now, analogously, if the customs official grabs a bit of my whiteness, it will be white, or itself an instance of whiteness; but if the groupies snatch a piece of my manhood, or my virtue, it will not itself have manhood, or virtue. |
 | | Whiteness is a quality, capable of fission into bits; manhood and virtue, on the other hand, are properties, all of a piece, unfissile. |
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