A leaf colored barrette is camouflaged in the live-oak leaves, fallen.
        But
        someone's head is not down there. Someone's hair is not being held
        back
        down there. Someone is just missing that object, someone has just lost
        it.
        It's not very interesting, except we can make a nice story out of it
        and
        then everything would have to fit, unfallen. And fitting, everything
        would
        be necessary. And everything being necessary, we would have to believe
        that
        language transparently tells of the ultimate nature of the universe.

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