Tuesday, December 15, 2009

News at Eleven: But whatever Darwinian evolution my tear ducts

may have been subjected to thus far, they don't yet seem to have caught up with this life of perpetual partings.

"Sentimentality," wrote the lawyer-poet Wallace Stevens, "is failed feeling," and, if Stevens was right, it seems I am a man whose feelings fail a great deal . . . or else I simply prefer Emily Dickinson's sentiment that "Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell."

from West Virginia Public Broadcasting: Michael Blumenthal on saying goodbye

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