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decorous presentation of that experience, of that real world of
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life, of that excessive joy.
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And it's given here this sort of clichéd,
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noble origin with the Native American, the Plains Indian.
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So, there is a sense, in the Plains Indian, that he is
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both the embodiment of a noble, restrained lineage;
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but also, deep in that American past, is this sense of great excess.
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Embarrassment tells us we're in the presence of the excess,
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and that's why Beat writers court it.
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That's why I courted it today for you.
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The excess requires, for the Beats, a new kind of
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language.