... unfools of unbeing. .. means quite clearly people who are too stereotyped to be eccentric — people who are too dead spiritually to exist at all and who call alive individual fools

Norman Friedman
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Many people live their lives in a way that is based on stereotypes. They are too predictable to be considered eccentric. For example, someone who is stereotyped as being boring. If you are boring, then you are likely to be considered an unfool of unfbeing.

Source: E.e. Cummings: The Art Of His Poetry

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