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The Child by Tiger
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- It is the great world of his mind, his heart, his spirit, built there in his imagination, shaped by wonder and unclouded by the obscuring flaws of accident and actuality, the proud, unknown earth of the lost, the found, the never-here, the ever-real America, unsullied, true, essential, built there in the brain, and shaped to glory by the proud and flaming vision of a child.†
essential = necessary or important or relating to the basic nature of something
- Thus, buried in the dark heart of the cold and secret North, abides forever the essential image of the South; thus, at the dark heart of the moveless South, there burns forever the immortal splendor of the North.†
- And snow swept in that night across the hills, demonic visitant, to restore that land to him, to sheet it in essential wonder.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(essential) necessary or important; or a basic and defining part of something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)