odds and ends...

I don't trust Yvor Winters's judgment as a critic of poetry. Too little gets through the strain. 

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Seems I may lack Negative Capability.

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The Winter Olympics are upon us - Eternal Recurrence as a Nightmare in which Sisyphus is grateful for the stone.

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Napoleon occasionally stubbed his toe. Perhaps he drooled in his sleep. Had Hegel considered this, the Cold War might not have happened.