#55: A Step Away From Them
in memory of Mel Nichols
The Boredom & the Horror & the Glory
on reading, teaching, and writing American Literature | "to see beneath both beauty and ugliness; to see the boredom, and the horror, and the glory." - T.S. Eliot
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