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Where there's no stop and go
a thought may wet your face,
a breath arrest your stare.
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I speak from ignorance.
Who once learned much, but speaks from ignorance now.
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The death-of-the-author thematics, as commonly adapted, are another inanity: when society does its very best to homogenize us, what is wrong with a strong, knowledgeable, and responsible ego crying in the darkening wildnerness?
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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
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Nathaniel Tarn
Born:
1928
Died:
June, 2024
(aged 96)
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Nathaniel Tarn was an American poet, essayist, anthropologist, and translator. He was born to a French mother and a British father. He lived in Paris until age 7, then in Belgium until age 11.
Known for:
The persephones (1974)
The beautiful contradictions (1969)
Ins and outs of the forest rivers (2008)
Scandals in the house of birds (1997)
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