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The Intentional Table
The Intentional Table
What do you see when you see?

What do you see when you see?

...and just who is it that is seeing at all?

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Jonathan McCloud
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1958 photograph of Baldwin by Mottke Weissman (via Flickr)

The poets (by which I mean all artists) are finally the only people who know the truth about us. Soldiers don’t. Statesmen don’t. Priests don’t. Union leaders don’t. Only poets.

—James Baldwin

Most people live in almost total darkness… people, millions of people whom you will never see, who don’t k…

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