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Realized I hadn't done my reading for the morning's Romantic class yet, looked up what texts we're doing. Tintern, Prelude 1-8. How often have I read Tintern? How do I keep losing enough of it to fall in love with it again, not just merely stay in love? I swear (in the flush and wake of it) I'm gladder for its existence than Paradise Lost's or anything in Shakespeare. And then I start The Prelude, 1850's but no matter...has anything ever begun so well? Ecstasy as fine as bridegroom Spenser's, just from being and sitting and walking right. And then the theme, the incipient inchoate, and then oh no! perplexity and there, he gives up.

And then I turn the page and had somehow forgotten completely it was there, that I'd read last what, seven months ago. Norton, 6th Edition (the harlot 7th surely does this no longer) had started the new page with it to surprise me. Those four words then those four thousand.

I bless how bad memory is.