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For the few sweeping generalizations he’s made it doesn’t actually seem like Auden is remotely familiar with any Soviet literature

Auden is one of those readers / critics obsessed with a kind of poetic “truth” that, to the nonbelievers, is going to seem arbitrary and impossible, but goddamn if he doesn’t write a nice sentence

Auden sounding vaguely Deleuzian at times … even a nod towards his own iteration of “faciality”