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troubled days

“What this country needs most,” President Herbert Hoover remarked to Christopher Morley early into the Great Depression, “is a great poet.” Inspiration in a time of despair, solace under loss, fortitude under grinding anxiety, are best supplied by such a … Continue reading

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scraps of dreams and reality

The seeker and dealer of what others have thrown away. Time. Time cradled in the hands of the ragpicker, the tactile touch of chronology is something apart from time in the hands of the researcher or sociologist. Here, it is … Continue reading

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