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 | | Williams says that he wants to “annihilate” this “THING,” this living corpse, but, as we’ve seen, even art that means “nothing” nonetheless means itself, which is “something.” In this sense, even Duchamp's minimalism lacks what Williams calls “cleanliness,” the capacity to observe the hygiene of burial. |
 | | Williams emphasizes, however, that Boone does not try “to be an Indian,” (“though they eagerly sought to adopt him into their tribes”). |
 | | Instead, as Williams argues in the “Prologue,” “the New World is Montezuma or, since he was stoned to death in a parley, Gautemozin who had the city of Mexico leveled over him before he was taken” (24). |
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