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“Just Walking Around” [by John Ashbery & new bio notes]
Just Walking Around What name do I have for you? Certainly there is no name for youIn the sense that the stars have namesThat somehow fit them. Just walking around, An object of curiosity…
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Tara Borin: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_______________________________________________________ List of Duties in a Subarctic Dive Bar If the temperature outside is twenty-five below…
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Four Amazing Quotes from Schopenhauer
Consciousness is conditioned by the intellect, and the intellect is a mere accident of our being, for it is a function of the brain. The brain, together with the nerves and spinal cord attached…
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The end of the semester: a farewell address [by DL]
Working with you has been a pleasure from start to finish. I’d like to leave you with a few thoughts: — You can do anything. When planning your future, do not limit yourself to…
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“Comrade Auden” in the TLS
From "Comrade Auden" by David Collard (Times Literary Supplement, May 20, 2009) <<Auden’s verses apart, there are admittedly prose sections in Three Songs of Lenin which will provoke a modern audience to uneasy laughter.…
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Big Daddy Lipscomb [by Mitch Sisskind]
1.I asked Jesus for a moment of his time,We got together at the bottom of a mineAnd when I asked Jesus for…
