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06 May 2017
Joyas Voladoras This article is of the best things I've ever read, first when it was published in '04 and then when I rediscovered it in 2012. It evokes a psychedelic sort of interconnectedness...
By the way, I randomly typed this essay's title into Twitter search and came across students being anxious about assignments on it. Damn! A transcendent, life-affirming piece became a grind in classrooms.
I totally agree with Gore Vidal saying, “These English courses are what have killed literature for the public.”
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