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In Memoriam Dr. Eugene Curtsinger

It has been a little bit of time since Dr. Curtsinger’s death.  I often recall his class, recall his mannerisms, his stories.  I cannot imagine having not taken his class.  But why bring up Dr. Curtsinger?  It’s not so much that I’ve been listening to “I’ll Be Missing You” or that I own a portion of […]

Yeats

We were the last romantics – chose for theme Traditional sanctity and loveliness; Whatever’s written in what poets name The book of the people; whatever most can bless The mind of man or elevate a rhyme; But all is changed, that high horse riderless, Though mounted in that saddle Homer rode Where the swan drifts […]

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