The prose can be brutally beautiful. But the semester starts, you fall in love, get deflowered, watch Kennedy die and the Beatles invade, get high to listen to Coltrane, and discover Heller, Ellison, Ferlighetti, and Bellow – writing that flows across the page in huge bright swaths that you didn’t know English could permit.
-Richard Powers
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