When I was a freshman in college I took my first poetry class, and my father started referring to me as "the poet," like an epithet. Even then I had no interest in being a poet — I had a passing interest in writing fiction, mostly as a hobby, and thought I'd minor in creative writing — but it was chemistry that interested me, visions of designing drugs to keep people healthy, researching the origins of life, using organics as fine tools for the first time in human history… Writing was just ...
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November 06, 2009 17:59
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