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To read it closely is to accept its contradictions. It is both playful and serious, private and public, crude and artful. It asks little of the reader except attention and imagination. From those small investments grow scenes: the artist hunched over gear at three a.m., the friend who laughs and asks what “108” means, the crowd at a show that recognizes the line and bursts into knowing applause. In other words, the phrase’s power is social and sonic as much as semantic.