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"I started Early - Took my Dog

Nice to see Emily's dog, Carlo making an appearance in one of her poems. Something about the idea of Emily and Carlo hanging out makes me feel good, as in it seems fitting her closest friend would of course be a dog. And I believe that the dog is the "He" in this poem, and that his "bowing" is how a dog who is playing hunkers down excitedly, perhaps as he barks at the sea."
Oct 14, 2019 06:30AM

 
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"The drunker he gets the more he questions what is the physical attraction, the desire for sex, for physical love with Justine, or perhaps with anybody for that matter. He equates sex with drunkenness as he stumbles around the city's red-light district, a drug that everyone wants and needs and that drives everyone to mad extremes just to feel ... something." Jul 06, 2019 01:59PM

 
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"He spends so much time working that he has no time to pursue reading or any other artistic endeavors, just like most hard working people.

He is proud that he knows the cost of his home and has built every meter of it, and he bemoans ornament and over decoration, but most people are willing to pay a convenience to not be bothered with more labor than they can bear. Better to pay rent and have company than be isolated"
Jun 23, 2019 02:06PM

 
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T.S. Eliot
“Because these wings are no longer wings to fly
But merely vans to beat the air
The air which is now thoroughly small and dry
Smaller and dryer than the will
Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still”
T.S. Eliot

Carl Sagan
“Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.”
Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Yukio Mishima
“Insensitive people are only upset when they actually see the blood, but actually by the time that the blood has been shed the tragedy has already completed.”
Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Arkady Strugatsky
“Strange department, this. Their motto was: "The comprehension of Infinity requires infinite time." I did not argue with that, but then they derived an unexpected conclusion from it: Therefore work or not, it´s all the same."
In the interests of not increasing the entropy of the universe, they did not work.”
Arkady Strugatsky, Понедельник начинается в субботу

Grigor Narekatsi
“And this book is - instead of my body,
And this word is - instead of my soul.”
Grigor Narekatsi, The Book of Sadness

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