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January 19, 2003

Eglantine writes:

To-day, I will seek not the shadowy region;

Its unsustaining vastness waxes drear;

And visions rising, legion after legion,
Bring the unreal world too strangely near.

- Emily Bronte, from “Stanzas”

January 19, 2003 02:16 PM
Comments
Abulafia writes:

Spooky!

January 19, 2003 07:06 PM
Ezra writes:

They said, “You have a blue guitar,
You do not play things as they are.”

The man replied, “Things as they are
Are changed upon the blue guitar.”

And they said then, “But play, you must,
A tune beyond us, yet ourselves,

A tune upon the blue guitar
Of things exactly as they are.”

—Wallace Stevens, from “The Blue Guitar”

January 20, 2003 12:34 AM