"Even to say "Being simply is" is to impose upon Reality the human conceptions of noun, verb, and adverb, the human logic of grammar and syntax, and thus to falsify it, since there are no categories in Nature's warpless, woofless web."
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John Barth, "How to Make a Universe" (1960), in The Friday Book (1984). Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, p. 22
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