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with Gail over at Crossing the Rubicon2 I will not get sucked into arguments with members of the looney left. I will not get sucked into arguments with members of the looney left. I will not get sucked into arguments with members of the looney left.

Love (III)

Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back, Guilty of dust and sin. But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack From my first entrance in, Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning If I lacked anything. “A guest,” I answered, “worthy to be here”: Love said, “You shall be he.” “I, the unkind, ungrateful? Ah, Continue reading Love (III)

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From Commentary – Writing on the Brain: Writing on the Brain Joseph Epstein I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost every other form of profitable work. This must be accompanied, second, by a haughty contempt for all the forms of Continue reading No comment

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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. — Samuel Johnson