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Strictly narrative
Feb. 3rd, 2004 11:09 amTurning away from difficult issues, I'm internally debating the ethics of going to see Sylvia. It's hard not to take into account what Frieda Hughes has written:
"Now they want to make a film
For anyone lacking the ability
To imagine the body, head in oven
Orphaning children."
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I really enjoy my offline reading group, but we decided at the outset not to read classics, in which I am woefully under-read. There should be a reading group for people hastily trying to fill the gaps in their reading. A sort of mutual support group in response to that game in that David Lodge novel, where all the English Lit academics admit to the most gaping hole in their reading.
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And, thirdly:
"Now they want to make a film
For anyone lacking the ability
To imagine the body, head in oven
Orphaning children."
***
I really enjoy my offline reading group, but we decided at the outset not to read classics, in which I am woefully under-read. There should be a reading group for people hastily trying to fill the gaps in their reading. A sort of mutual support group in response to that game in that David Lodge novel, where all the English Lit academics admit to the most gaping hole in their reading.
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And, thirdly:
