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L.

L. believes names should be chosen: “I chose a mark a signal, a single letter, signifying a sharply defined energy broken; perceived, rearranged.”

— From September 1976
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

For Want Of

The mss. following, For Want Of originated in my desire to make a simple statement about animals: our egotistical, destructive “categorical separation” of Life, our overtly cruel treatment of animals for often pointless or, at best, ambiguous studies.

September 1976
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