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Sometimes, the shortest path between two points is serpentine,
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Simplification is the essence of abstraction from which objective values are not necessarily eliminated.
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Christopher Benfey
Born:
October 28, 1954
(age 71)
Bio:
Christopher Benfey is an American literary critic and Emily Dickinson scholar. He is the Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College.
Known for:
The double life of Stephen Crane (1992)
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