[b]>A great poem is helpful when shaving, because the >bristles rise on your face.
>Housman or maybe Frost said something like that
Housman (but he may have put his tongue in cheek to
facilitate shaving; a professor who spends a great
chunk of his life anatomizing a text in classical
latin probably does not hold the intellect in such
contempt, but rather may have been casting a cold eye
on the inadequacy of the criticism of his contemporaries
to explain it...).
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