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+ Destiny’s Kisses and Dope-Slaps

September 25, 2011 – 11:50 am

The most life-changing events in our lives are not really down to us. I read a quote the other day from David Foster Wallace’s novel Infinite Jest, which beautifully elaborates on the seemingly serendipitous nature of life: “Both destiny’s kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person’s basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events [...]

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+ The Hedonistic Harry and Caresse Crosby

January 22, 2011 – 4:04 pm

He had gifts that would have made him an explorer, a soldier of fortune, a revolutionist: they were qualities fatal to a poet. –Malcolm Cowley’s summary of Harry Crosby Having studied the works of the likes of Ernest Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence, and James Joyce at university, I was really surprised that I hadn’t heard of [...]

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+ Philip Larkin’s Letters to Monica

November 3, 2010 – 5:32 pm

Although many years have passed since I was first introduced to Philip Larkin’s fantastically down-to-earth and relatable poems at high school, BBC Radio 4′s readings of Letters to Monica instantly sparked my interest. I found this (fairly long) passage from Telegraph.co.uk, which really captures the intensity of his admiration for D.H. Lawrence: I get the [...]

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