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Posted on April 2, 2018

Elegy For Jane (My Student, thrown by a horse) – Theodore Roethke

Text taken from here. Elegy for Jane (My student, thrown by a horse) I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils; And her quick look, a sidelong pickerel smile;…

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Posted on April 1, 2018April 2, 2018

Only love can break your heart. Only love can save you. Only love can damn you. Neil Young, Dante, Purgatorio, the power of love.

I first discovered Neil Young’s “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” via St Etienne’s version. If a “standard” can be defined as a song whose essence and meaning transcend the…

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Posted on July 13, 2017July 13, 2017

Some extracts from “The Woman Who Waited”, Andrei Makine

‘She is a woman palpably meant for happiness (if only purely physical happiness, mere bodily well-being) and yet so casually, it seems, she has chosen solitude, loyalty to an absent…

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