You know, I dismissed these too easily in a different comment. Thinking of them as koans - containing contradictions, not holding truth, but revealing insights via the reader’s debate and struggle and resistance - makes me like them a lot more!

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or, in perlis's own words:

> 125. Epigrams crystallize incongruities.

Ah, the duality! as some Advaitins would say ;)