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[lisekit]

Hippolytus says

Sure the words must be spoken
'seriously'
and so as to be taken seriously?
This is,
though vague,
true enough in general -
it is an important commonplace
in discussing the purport
of any utterance whatsoever.

I must not be joking,
for example,
nor writing a poem.
But

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