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Is it the lumberman, then, who is the friend and lover of the pine, stands nearest to it, and understands its nature best? Is it the tanner who has barked it, or he who has boxed it for turpentine, whom posterity will fable to have been changed into a pine at last? No! no! it is the poet: he it is who makes the truest use of the pine-who does not fondle it with an axe, nor tickle it with a saw, nor stroke it with a plane....

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Jonathan Samuel Carroll

Jonathan Samuel Carroll (born January 26, 1949) is an American author of magic realist/slipstream/mainstream fiction.

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