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Into thirty centuries born,
Edwin
Muir
began his most celebrated poem, At home in them all but the very last. Much is said about escapism in narrative and fiction. But perhaps the greatest escapism of all is to take refuge in the domesticity of the past, the home that history and literature become, avoiding the one moment of time in which we are not at home, yet have to live: the present.
Tim Parks
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In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?
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Edwin Muir
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Born:
May 15, 1887
Died:
January 3, 1959
(aged 71)
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