In praise of avidity:
“Beauty is part of the history of idealizing, which is itself part of the history of consolation.”
--Susan Sontag
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You are neither here nor there, in and out of an enormous room through which known and strange things pass, all through your solitude
Postscript
And some time make the time to drive out west
Into County Clare, along the Flaggy Shore,
In September or October, when the wind
And the light are working off each other . . .
[the rest of the poem]
Into County Clare, along the Flaggy Shore,
In September or October, when the wind
And the light are working off each other . . .
[the rest of the poem]
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