The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters.

Harold Bloom
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  1. (Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious man turns to the idea of God.

  2. Everyone wants a prodigy to fail it makes our mediocrity more bearable.

  3. (Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious idea turns to the idea of God.

  4. There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable.

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