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the red blue color poems in colored crayon (do a lot of things at once) they're poems but look like paintings yet (being neither poems nor paintings) are something beyond both --- and are meant to be (that) thing beyond both that includes both --- not a matter of mélange des genres a reaching beyond known genres for a new one a direction of the discovery of new ones (from thesis antithesis to synthesis) a reaching beyond what is to what (may become) --- is there a sense in which all that may ever become already is? yes, is in potentia
–pp. 350-351, Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax