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"Spiderlike among the bolls of cotton,"
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"his hands balled in the cotton pockets of his coat. "
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It's a tiny, little thing.
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I would argue, however, that what we're seeing here
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is the way the very style and tone perpetuates itself, out of itself.
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So, I want to add a final layer in my excavation of allusion,
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and here say that he's alluding to himself,
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that there is a constant re-layering that takes the language and the
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repetitiousness of that language builds within the text.
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There is a lot of anxiety about origin,
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right here in these couple pages.
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We're told, "Only now is it"- as he goes to Texas-"