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The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling.
June 2, 2014
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course
May 24, 2014
But clearly the fact that we’ve gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it’s not enough.
June 2, 2014