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Friday, October 18, 2019

The Death of Bloom

Bloom's death, coinciding with my own meditation practice, has freed me from my clinging to my dislike of certain irritating things about Bloom.  There are many. I could could list them too.

But this quote struck me because it was exactly the same for me:

 "Why is it you can have that extraordinary experience (preadolescent in my case, as in so many other cases) of falling violently in love with great poetry . . . where you are moved by its power before you comprehend it? "

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