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Ida was a natural historian who knew how to throw in enough fiction to keep up dramtic tension. And she was replete with details, like a big fat colorful nineteenth-century historical novel, inching forward slowly....Ida's narrative line, like her waistline, was ample.
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― Heading Uptown
― Heading Uptown
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Pisanello painted horses so that one remembers the painting, and the Duke of Milan sent him to Bologna to BUY horses. Why a similar kind of 'horse sense' can't be applied in the study of literature is, and has always been, beyond my comprehension. Pisanello had to LOOK at the horses. You would think that anyone wanting to know about poetry would do one of two things or both. I.E. LOOK AT it or listen to it. He might even think about it? And if he wanted advice he would go to someone who KNEW som
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― ABC of Reading
― ABC of Reading
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