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to the production of knowledge.
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So, first of all, let me point out a literary resonance,
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and that's to Faulkner's, Absalom,absalom,
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which is the story of Henry Sutpen,
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another Henry, and the way he built a plantation out of nothing.
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And what's remarkable about Sutpen, his overarching and overwhelming
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characteristic, is that he had a plan,
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a plan that reached all the way down through his heirs,
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and part of that plan was
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the unblemished whiteness of the line he was establishing.
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So, this story about another Henry, another Master Henry,
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pulling a plantation out of the wilderness with his bare hands,