News at Eleven: "Reading a poem involves self-examination . . .

we don't have the time or the inclination." [--Martin Amis] Ah I weep . . . a novelist who does not have the time or the inclination for self-examination . . . surely not! As Harold Bloom tells us, we read "in quest of mind more original than our own".

from The Guardian: The visionary company of love

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