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Unread 02-18-2001, 10:34 AM
Tim Murphy Tim Murphy is offline
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I didn't see Simpson's letter, but he's no romantic. In fact he's gone from being a competent writer of verse to a boring writer of lieneated prose in the space of fifty years. I don't know what his motive would be for denigrating Borges, but might it not be envy? The Kipling couplet is a killer.
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