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Unread 04-01-2018, 11:55 PM
Andrew Frisardi Andrew Frisardi is offline
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Thanks for this, Aaron. I enjoyed reading it of an Easter Monday morning.

I wonder if Stevens had Leopardi's famous poem about Vesuvius in mind, "La Ginestra." The themes (insignificance of pain or even individual lives in relation to geological time and nature's indifference) are similar.
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