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Ok, but seriously, is it weird that I have a crush on Tom Joad?

Watson on visiting Scotland: "By the following morning I was aware that the best way not to feel impossibly cold was to remain in bed or, when that proved impossible, to go walking, unless the rain was coming down in buckets." Which is always.

A whole lot of Ezra Pound worship.

Hemingway has just mistaken Alaister Crowley for Hilaire Belloc. Hilarious!

Let words enter each other the way bold minds are meant to, and bodies sometimes will, in the nervous system of a sentence that tongues and turns, riddled with silence and the push-pull of sound, so its sense swills while near-music lingers on the threshold. Sexy poetry by Alan Gillis.

"I recognized the familiar itch to be somewhere else, with new people, new ideas...new books."

"You sought the heaviest burden/ And you found yourself - / it is a burden you cannot throw off..."

But if the hope of slaughter and the expectation of tearing in pieces the beast doth please thee, thou shouldest rather be moved with pity to see a silly innocent hare murdered of a dog: the innocent of the cruel and unmerciful. Therefore all this exercise of hunting is a thing unworthy to be used of free men.

If this were the work of an eighteenth century poet, it would be heavily annotated. Gray's poetry is classically built, using references from contemporary literature and from antiquity. I can catch a few of them here and there...Oh, that's Dylan Thomas, or, I think that's Genesis 1. But how many references am I missing? And how long do I need to wait until some aged academic makes an edited version?

"..it seems that gender as substance, the viability of man and woman as nouns, is called into question by the dissonant play of attributes that fail to conform to sequential or causal model of intelligibility". Whoever read this book before me was not convinced by ol' Judith. In the margins, scribbled in pencil, is written, "Oh please."

"Pregnant ball in the sky,/ Most pregnant, listen-to-me, my serenade,/ My howl."