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  • But in his music the same sense of escape from ordinary limits – a reach for, or the achievement of, a kind of violent transcendence – can come from hesitations, repetitions of words or phrases, pauses, the way a musical change by another musician is turned by Morrison as a bandleader or seized on by him as a singer and changed into a sound that becomes an event in and ofitself.

    Listening to Van Morrison by Greil Marcus Greil Marcus 2010

  • The machine considered and allowed the sections ofitself which controlled intelligence to lapse back to dormancy, ready.

    Tar Aiym Krang Foster, Alan Dean 1972

  • It is rare to hear anything in the news about Iraq, and that in and ofitself is a tragedy.

    OpEdNews 2010

  • It is rare to hear anything in the news about Iraq, and that in and ofitself is a tragedy.

    OpEdNews 2010

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