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A Wonderful, Vivid Passage from Dicken’s Christmas Carol

Anita Mathias — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:09:00 +0000

Irene, “Dad you MUST take me to school earlier. I am always skinning the flint.” “Skinning the flint?” Arriving just before her name is called out in register. Well, Roy, as a mathematician, is a master of precise calculations. I am reading The Christmas Carol, Irene said before I could correct. And with great enjoyment […]

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The Magical Moment in Which You Realize that You Are, or Will Be a Writer

Anita Mathias — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:44:00 +0000

The Magical Moment in Which You Realize that You Are, or Will Be a Writer Anne Sexton said she realized that she was a poet (I suppose she meant that she had the capacity to be a poet) while watching John Berryman read on TV. It really a magical moment, the sort of moment in […]

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Rainer Maria Rilke on a really good sentence!

Anita Mathias — Thu, 20 May 2010 21:36:00 +0000

Rilke on a really good sentence “Alas, those verse one writes in youth aren’t much. One should wait and gather meaning and sweetness all his life, a long one if possible, and then maybe at the end he might write ten good lines. For poetry isn’t, as people imagine, merely feelings (these come soon enough); […]

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