Re-examine All You Have Been Told — Whitman T-Shirt

"…re-examine all you have been told…"
— Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass, first edition · 1855

He put the instruction in the preface, then included his own book in the list. The point is not suspicion. It is going back through what you were handed and keeping only what still holds.

The line starts where you expect and then steps sideways. It never sits square on the chest. Dots at both ends mark it as a fragment: more came before, more comes after.

100% combed and ring-spun cotton, with the Quoteiac logo on the left sleeve.

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