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We know by intuition and study that great books approach a condition both above and below human _ what Lesser means by __randeur and intimacy_ _ and our job is to place ourselves somewhere on the continuum between those shifting poles, to welcome a gravid agitation or be willing to undergo some form of personal torsion; to have our personhood both threatened and amplified.
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We know by intuition and study that great books approach a condition both above and below human _ what Lesser means by __randeur and intimacy_ _ and our job is to place ourselves somewhere on the continuum between those shifting poles, to welcome a gravid agitation or be willing to undergo some form of personal torsion; to have our personhood both threatened and amplified.

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