Tuesday, January 29, 2013

which

These two things came to me very nearly simultaneously, one and just after, the other.  I found one and the other was a perfectly timed gift.  
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I don't know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendos,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.
-Wallace Stevens, from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird



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