...others; who cares if they contradict each other? After all, didn't Walt Whitman say, in "Song of Myself": "Do I contradict myself? /Very well, then, I contradict...myself;/ (I am large — I contain multitudes.)"? Whitman was the kind of natural mystic who could contemplate the One in terms of the minute particulars...

...the sidle of evening, (Talk honestly, for no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.) Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) 208 •••••i 1 I concentrate toward them that are nigh, I wait on the door-slab. Who has done...

...enjoy its clarity. III. Conversations From El raton miquito to Jack Foley: Chorus with Multiple Tattoos Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. —Walt Whitman, «Song of Myself.» Quoting from Joyce's Finnegans Wake, John Cage said: «Here Comes...

...echoing nonchalance of his two greatest disciples. To Whitman's sprezzatura in "Song of Myself" — Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. (I am large, I contain multitudes). — Nietzsche would answer, "It is precisely such 'contradictions' that seduce one to existence."24...

...snuff the sidle of evening, (Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.) Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) 52 I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift...

...feed harsh and punitive attitudes. What Walt Whitman wrote about the self can be said of scripture: "Do I contradict myself? Very well then ... I contradict myself; I am large ... I contain multitudes" (1998; 104). Or as a rabbi at a public conference described the Bible: "It is one dysfunctional book;...

...— but it doesn't mean that the second way is the way they really are either! As Walt Whitman said, "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes." Each of us is large, containing multitudes! We are not just confined to our bodies. Only in the great...

...bad, without simply presupposing that they are? Some might argue otherwise, Walt Whitman, for example: Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) - Song of Myself, verse 51 , Leaves of Grass Others take a slightly narrower stance, allowing contradiction...

...uncle." "Oh." "And Wah Whiiman." She hrighrens. "You know him? I like him. I have some of him hy heart. 'Do I contradict myself? / Very well then I contradict myself. / (I am large. I contain mulrimdes.)' " "So you do," says her fathet. She names other Transcend en talists. "All the Bostonians....

...snuff the sidle of evening, Talk honestly, for no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer. Do I contradict myself? Very well then.. ..I contradict myself; I am large....! contain multitudes. I concentrate toward them that are nigh....! wait on the door-slab. Who has done...