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… And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, “O me! O life!… of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless… of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?” Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

And yet what constitutes the human race as the actual reason that we read and write? The only thing special about the human race is our ability to read and write: our literacy level allows us to rise above other animals and in that sense, it is from internalizing a written language that we think we are better than others animals and it is from this internalization of written language that allows highly abstract thinking.