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     This book is a collection of wisekracks. But the point is: ˇthey are connected, they form a system. If the task were to draw the shape of an object true to nature, then a wisekrack is like drawing
just one
merely a
tangent to the real
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curve; Bbut a thousend wisekracks draw thou[th|s]end tangents & thereby ˇclosely drawn spaced // set // lying close to each other can draw the curve.