Thread: How have I never read this incredible poem?
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Unread 04-03-2001, 06:39 AM
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Wonderful use of the subjunctive, that delicate distinction between "should" and "could." Nuances like this are vanishing from the language as the Latin roots get more and more deeply buried.

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