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Its bloom conducts a current whose unit of measure was invented for the purpose and has since been applied to nothing else. Its perfume, described by those who could not afterwards describe it, seeds memory backward: the gardener remembers, in the moment of smelling, events that have not yet occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Andre Breton<\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"a-text-italic\">How To Grow Lilacs On The Moon<\/span><\/em>\u00a0is a handbook. It proceeds in the manner of handbooks \u2014 through taxonomy and germination study, soil protocol and tidal harmonic, transit certificate and petal metallurgy and the schedule of duties payable at the lunar port \u2014 because the marvelous, when it cannot be seized, can at least be administered. The algebra of propagation set against the impossibility of the bloom. 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