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[proximoception]

_abulafia, how's permanent existence? (Just got mine!)

_swallow, how's the shock of affording things?

agoraphiliac, is Mass. pluraler than other places?

all_unnecessary, what drew you to that cruel taleteller?

andaghost, do your rivers repose?

andalus, what's Shakespeare been doing?

biberkopf_bear, is it Bresson or is it me? (no reply expected)

bluerosesgirl, has 2007-13 shifted your econ. views?

burntnorton, what would we be doing if we knew? (NRE)

canonfire, what book are you proudest to have helped deliver?

darkchild37, have you met any of the thirty-six plus other darkchildren? (NRE)

dominika_kretek, what made us think Heather Graham could act?

ensenchiridion, where will the pennies go?

fingersweep, tried Straussless Hofmannsthal?

flannerymatisse, whose was the strangest suicide? (NRE)

fuckallinfinity, what are we neglecting? (NRE)

gongora, what year is it in your soul?

grashupfer, what's Olivia reading?

ikon_, what's with the card thing? (NRE)

jones_casey, did you ever explain your name on here?

karinmollberg, what do you most miss from home?

localcharacter, Powell's or Strand?

maga_dogg, how's the upper left 48th?

mauvais_genre, what's next?

mendaciloquent, have you read much A.R. Ammons?

morelovehours, who do you now repudiate? (NRE)

nightspore, what's your favorite Byron canto?

parishat, how's the littling big guy? (NRE)

princenarcissus, what do the kids always get? (NRE)

proteus_fish, what has changed most?

tdaschel, title of an unexisting Ken Burns documentary you'd watch in a dream?

thelican, does this decade have a feeling to it yet?

toctoc, what puzzles you most about your neighbors?

vexed_vitality, do you swim?

whatever_being, what have you most enjoyed writing about?

wolodymyr, what's that on your labcoat?

xhasyxhaxha, but what about squirrels?

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I hadn't read this. The translation should be credited, I think. (To the owned of the blog, maybe? "It's all learning and teaching to me!!!")

-- "In the company of [Seneca and Cicero] I was overcome with a terrible sense of loneliness; I felt like someone locked in a garden surrounded by eyeless statues."

-- "I cannot expect you to understand me without examples, and I must plead your indulgence for their absurdity. A pitcher, a harrow abandoned in a field, a dog in the sun..."

-- "I know not how oft this Crassus with his lamprey enters my mind as a mirrored image of my Self, reflected across the abyss of centuries. But not on account of the answer he gave Domitius. The answer brought the laughs on his side, and the whole affair turned into a jest. I, however, am deeply affected by the affair, which would have remained the same even had Domitius shed bitter tears of sorrow over his wives. For there would still have been Crassus, shedding tears over his lamprey."

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The mid-century Selected Prose volume is wall-to-wall fantastic, but usually unfindable outside libraries.