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"In dreams begin responsibilities".(Cover story)

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From: Emerging Infectious Diseases
Date: 20080401
Author:Potter, Polyxeni

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"In Dreams Begin Responsibilities"

--William Butler Yeats

"I woke with this marble head in my hands; / It exhausts my elbows and I don't know where to put it down. / It was falling into the dream as I was coming out of the dream / So our life became one and it will be very difficult for it to separate again," wrote George Seferis about his relationship with art from antiquity (1). Traversing the edges of time has long been the domain of artists and poets, who view history as a continuous process not to be fragmented and labeled "ancient" as if ...

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