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And so, the kid is likened to someone
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cursed for looking upon their origin.
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There is a sense in which he can almost understand it.
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This is meant to be mystery, and yet by looking, somehow,
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he is closer to it than he should be.
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The problem for the kid is to divest himself of origin,
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to forget it, so if Ham is cursed
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because he saw his origin, the kid's curse lies,
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in part, in the divestiture of all origin.
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He forgets it.
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It's not that he sees it; he forgets it.
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And then you can get a sentence like this: