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Thursday, August 31st, 2006

Department of – WRONG! Poetry Division

In discussing Philip Larkin’s poem, “This Be the Verse,” John Derbyshire writes
Though heterosexual, he never married, and seems not to have had much liking for women beyond the sexual interest.
My reading of Larkin’s life, based on biography and poems, is that Derbyshire is wrong on this. We didn’t just learn [...]

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

When the Going Gets Tough, the Weird Turn Cardboard

A story too weird to do more than link. To tease out the symbolism explicitly would be like stomping a puppy to death.
Via Amygdala.