Stevens Inquiry

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    “The prologues are over. It is a question, now,
    Of final belief. So, say that final belief
    Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.”
    —W. Winwood Reade (1838–1875)