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Food and Other Chantings

      It is sometimes difficult to grab the first line by its forelock, especially when one is trying to bring heterogeneous ideas together. A rejoinder:   I have always loved the word ‘heterogeneous’ ever since I had read Dr. Johnson’s description of  17th century Metaphysical poetry as: “[…]the most heterogeneous ideas […]yoked by violenceContinue reading “Food and Other Chantings”