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I’m a hopeless English major from UD

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Jun 2010
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This is “The Waking” by Theodore Roethke, and it’s my favorite poem. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.I learn by going where I have to go. We think by feeling. What is there to know?I hear my being dance from ear to ear.I wake […]

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Dionysian Music – Slipknot

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Jun 2010
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I’m back in the States, despite a brief stay in Belford Hospital in Port William. Having time on my hands in the hospital, I was able to learn a new favorite poem (“I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow”), and, of course, think through a quick defense of music such as that produced […]

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