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Only on page 4 and I've already encountered some of the best prose I've read in a while. Can't wait to deep dive on this one.

Dear god what am I reading.... it's like if Hemingway survived a concentration camp with major brain damage and extremely diverse sexual phobias.

"An old man sits
In the shadow of a pine tree
In China.
He sees larkspur,
Blue and white,
At the edge of the shadow,
Move in the wind.
His beard moves in the wind.
The pine tree moves in the wind.
Thus water flows
Over weeds."

"In reading fiction, I suggest, we should be much less concerned with altering our own opinions - though this of course is sometimes their effect - than with entering fully into the opinions, and therefore also the attitudes, feelings, and total experience, of other men. Who would try to decide between materialism and theism by reading Lucretius and Dante? But we should learn from them what it is like to be one."

"Americans have more to fear from our professors than from Hitler, because their professors make us all more likely, in the long run, to become Hitler."

I have to say, I have never before encountered a writer who can make me choke up just by the beauty of his description of a head of asparagus.