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I Grant You Ample Leave

04/28/2026 14:58h
Highlight Actions Enable or disable annotations "I grant you ample leave grant you ample leave In other words, to let you express your grand opinion To use the hoary hoary Ancient, worthy of respect for its age formula 'I am' Naming the emptiness where thought is not; But fill the void with definition, 'I' Will be no more a datum datum A single piece of data or information than the words You link false inference false inference In philosophy and logic, an inference is the act or process of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true. Inferences are typically evaluated to be valid or invalid. with, the 'Since' & 'so' That, true or not, make up the atom-whirl atom-whirl The orbital paths of electrons around the nucleus . Resolve your 'Ego' ‘Ego’ Latin for “I”. , it is all one web With vibrant ether clotted into worlds: Your subject, self, or self-assertive 'I' Turns nought but object, melts to molecules, Is stripped from naked Being with the rest Of those rag-garments named the Universe. Or if, in strife to keep your 'Ego' strong You make it weaver of the etherial light etherial light Heavenly light , Space, motion, solids & the dream of Time — Why, still 'tis Being looking from the dark, The core, the centre of your consciousness, That notes your bubble-world bubble-world : sense, pleasure, pain, What are they but a shifting otherness, Phantasmal flux Phantasmal flux A fantastic, ghostlike stream or flow of moments? —"