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May 23Liked by Blake Smith

Never gonna be able to read Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush” and not hear that lol

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Also you *need* to do a post of Guy Davenport

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ugh no, he's sooo bad! A friend convinced me to read Geographies of the Imagination a few years ago and I just don't have the capacity for that sort of blustering bullying show of learning (which I'm sure blew [away] the undergrads and younger in shithole KY)... every line sounds it should be read by Orson Welles drunk in that wine commercial going "Ahhhh the French..."

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