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Rats.

It has occurred to me that my daily life consists of reading, writing, and thinking about what I’ve read and what I want to write. Yeah, yeah there’s the role TV occupies but it isn’t a blanket: I’m usually reading … Continue reading

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“Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats…

…and bit the babies in their cradles…” I memorized a big chunk of Robert Browning’s “The Pied Piper of Hamelin,” as an assignment in some public school grade or other. I can still rattle most of it off. (How wondrous … Continue reading

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