Now for something almost completely different:
The reading list for a course in the “Literary History of the Beat Generation”, taught by Allen Ginsberg in 1977. Links to the actual texts, makes for nice early summer reading.
And yet things do connect: On Terra Nova, Ren Reynolds has posted the question whether one should not discuss grief players (types of people) but rather focus on the act of grief playing (types of behavior).
To which I can only reply with Yeats’ poem Among the School Children:
O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer,
Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
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