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Freud Quiz # 7
Psychoanalysis became known as the "talking cure" because (a) it depends on free association (b) all talk and no action make Jack a dull boy (c) it was the talk of Viennese café society…
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Jet Blue and Brooklyn Ferry [by Mark Doty]
I'm writing from JFK, sitting at the gate at the Jet Blue terminal waiting for my plane to Ft Lauderdale. I spent all yesterday at Rutgers in New Brunswick, giving a talk on Whitman,…
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Lear is the Real King of Camino Royal
from King Lear: <<< Fool: Prithee, nuncle, keep a schoolmaster that can teach thy fool to lie. Lear: An you lie, sirrah, we'll have you whipped. Fool: I marvel what kin thou and thy…
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Snow, New Books, and Fire [by Mark Doty]
Yesterday we had a thaw, and in the evening you could actually smell mud or moist earth on the air,a sure sign of spring. It's one of those sensations you don't realize has been…
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Difficulty Part 2: reading Susan Howe [by Mark Doty]
Thinking about what's difficult in poetry makes me want to talk about a book I've been reading withgreat pleasure, Susan Howe's SOULS OF THE LABADIE TRACT, which New Directions published in 2007.The contexts of…
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Poetry, Difficulty, and a Very Annoying Word [by Mark Doty]
I've just gotten home from school (I'm a guest teacher at Cornell University in Ithaca this semester)which means I've walked a bike-path through the woods, still ice-coated from this weekend's storm. It's amazing. When…
