An awkward consequence of heightening experience when one is inexperienced, of self-transcendence when one has not much world … - Paul Goodman

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An awkward consequence of heightening experience when one is inexperienced, of self-transcendence when one has not much world to lose, is that afterward one cannot be sure that one was somewhere or had newly experienced anything. If you aren't much in the world, how do you know you are "out of this world"?

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