Whitman's advice to the Pynchon List

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This is what you shall do:  Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise 
riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, 
devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning 
God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to 
nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with 
powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of 
families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of 
your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any 
book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a 
great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the 
silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in 
every motion and joint of your body.
-Walt Whitman
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