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"A book in philosophy grows out of an evnironment of ideas, and thus one should always have misapprehensions about signing his name as author."

"...Finally, the source of all my general inspiration, my constant companion in this writing, my most familiar model of the beautiful, the graceful, and the sensitive, and the typist who spent months on this manuscript is my wife. This book must be dedicated to her."

Marcus Hester, The Meaning of Poetic Metaphor