I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

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The colon is an Ammons "signature"; he uses it "as an all-purpose punctuation mark. Corsons Inlet. Lehman has written that Ammons "bears out T.

He wrote about humanity's relationship to nature in alternately comic and solemn tones.