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just return it. I have enjoyed only bits of it myself.

Please accept my best regards,
Dan Flavin

P.S. I have asked my friend Don Judd for a cryptic quote for the beginning to go with the Rilke one. If he is willing and sends it to me, I will forward it quickly.

Here is one which I wanted to use but cut because its length and advanced maternity.  "There is a period of life, when the ocean of time seems to force upon the mind a barrier against itself, forming, as it were, a permanent beach, on which the advancing years successively break, only to be carried back by a returning current to that furthest deep whence they first flowed. Upon this beach the poetry of life maybe said to have its birth; where the real ends and ideal begins."

This way prove Washington Allston one of Allan Kaprow's worst ideational rivals.