“We may in this sense, and from this point of view, count ourselves as companions in a disaster.“
– Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight
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"All that is personal soon rots; it must be packed in ice or salt …
Talk to me of originality and I will turn on you with rage. I am
a crowd, I am a lonely man, I am nothing. Ancient salt is the best packing."
Talk to me of originality and I will turn on you with rage. I am
a crowd, I am a lonely man, I am nothing. Ancient salt is the best packing."
William Butler Yeats, from “A General Introduction to My Work,” reprinted in Essays and Introductions (Macmillan, 1961)
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