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who transcends ? the one who emerges is not the one who left

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the hand of hofstadter, immanent in every system, reaching upwards to a higher state 

it is the snake of shiva, reaching from matter to consciousness

it is the parentheses of lisp, moving from primitives to  language

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Arrived, yet never departed
A hand arises, carrying all
The serpent raises its hood
A parenthesis takes its place —
beginning a new expression, a line of escape
into a world more of the same