Stevens Inquiry

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    “It comes about that the drifting of these curtains
    Is full of long motions; as the ponderous
    Deflations of distance; or as clouds
    Inseparable from their afternoons....”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.”
    —W. Winwood Reade (1838–1875)