If not, maybe literature could canonize its first saint?
Saints without heaven is not contradictory, is it?
As another should-be-saint has said:
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(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
- Song of Myself
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"---- them is what i say.
I hate those ebooks.
They cannot be the future.
They may well be.
I will be dead.
I won't give a ----"
Oh, the poetry!
-js
Ps. we have a reasonable collection of Sendak's work besides the perennial darling, Where the Wild Things Are (see right).
1 comment:
I was never so at peace with myself until the day I stumbled upon Walt Whitman and that quote.
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