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Daniela Clemens's avatar

Yes to this.

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James Bailey's avatar

Amen

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Mitch Levenberg's avatar

to read books, I also depend on my own enthusiasm and connecting what we read no matter how alien to their lives on the surface, that we are all human and share the same human emotions and can say and do and even write beautiful things. I enjoyed your piece very much

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Mitch Levenberg's avatar

P.S. And I too am a Met fan and almost gave up on them in May and then they made me quite happy.

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Mitch Levenberg's avatar

As a literature teacher at St. Francis College where half my effort is trying to get students

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Jonathan Hernandez's avatar

Thank you for this piece! It really spoke to me as an instructor of writing and literature and as someone who has been slowly getting back to reading/rereading things that I want to read and have nothing to do with my work/research.

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James Bailey's avatar

“that if you surrender to the air, to the words, to the song, you could fly.”

Wow.

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Junot Díaz's avatar

of course im paraphrasing the last line in SONG OF SOLOMON: "As fleet and bright as a lodestar he wheeled toward Guitar and it did not matter which one of them would give up his ghost in the killing arms of his brother. For now he knew what Shalimar knew: If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."

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Evan Margetson's avatar

So true! I wondered if those phrases would qualify as biographemes ? Of a sort? If I understood the idea correctly.

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Junot Díaz's avatar

they definitely that that quality... "biographemes ... suggests minimum units of life, fragments of experience, abandoned objects, anecdotes."

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Evan Margetson's avatar

Thanks. One to think about more.

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