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The sign of the times.
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Happy New Year!
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Sunday night and a hell of a way
to start 1960.
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I don't know.
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Somebody gave me this book
for Christmas.
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A Great Modern Library book.
Ever seen one of those?
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It's less attractively bound...
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...than the Proceedings
of the New York State Assembly...
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...and weighs more.
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It was a given to me by a gent
who knows I'm fond of John Donne.
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The title of this book is:
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The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose
of John Donne...
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...and the Complete Poetry
of William Blake?
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The question mark is mine.
Please tell me what those two boys...
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...have in common except
they were both English...
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...and they both wrote.
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"When, as a boy, William Blake saw
the prophet Ezekiel under a tree...
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"...amid a summer field,
he was soundly trounced by his mother."
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I'm with his mother.
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I mean, the back of the Lord God,
the face of the Virgin Mary, all right.
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But why the hell would anybody
want to see the prophet Ezekiel?
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But the crucial word in all that
is "selected."
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The Selected Prose of John Donne!
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Here I was, in my armchair,
so at peace with the whole world...
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...something old and serene on the radio.
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Corelli or somebody,
and this thing on the table.
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This Giant Modern Library thing.
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So I thought:
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"I will read one of the sermons aloud."