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Nor ‘east, and that it runs right through Gloucester…”\n\t\t597\t“That which exists through itself is called meaning…”\n\t\t609\t“I was very lucky once to have what poets call visions”\n\t\t630\tSpeaks of “the creature which the poem calls the diorite stone”\n\t\t661\tSound increases in volume rapidly\n\t\t670\t“The stone is the truest condition of creation.”\n\t\t692\t“The only interest of a spiritual exercise is production.”\n\t\t725\tReads “A little story about the condition of … two angels.”\n\t\t760\tSpeaks of the ‘double’.\n\t\t767\t“I want to end by reading a poem I read in front of Ezra Pound two weeks ago in honor of him – and it fell dead.”\n\t\t785\t“the Wall/to arise from the River, the Diorite Stone to be lopped off the Left Shoulder.”  (from “Astride/the Cabot/fault”)\n\t\t809\t“that there is no world except that we are the pictures of it…”\n\t\t826\t“the overt spiritual exercise of initiation in initiated in us… for having been born”\n\t\t835\tSound ends"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Liner Notes: Jack Spicer and Charles Olson Side 1: Sound of Water 2:30 Reading by Jack Spicer 20 More Water 2:30 Lecture by Charles Olson 3:30 Side 2: Olson continued, but incomplete 27:37 Dolby B\",\"type\":\"General\"},{\"note\":\"The first part of this tape duplicates J.S. reading The Book of Magazine Verse; see Tape #96 side 1 & 2 for better copy\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670554725253124,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:59.119Z","score":4.4400663},{"id":"6339","cataloger_name":["Mozhgan,Nourafkan"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_description":["Reading in BC collection was assembled during the late 1970s and ‘80s. 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