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  • A commonplace student’s commonplace book. Part II

    A commonplace student’s commonplace book. Part II

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    Julian Rota
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    All things by immortal powerNear or farHiddenlyTo each other linked areThat thou canst not stir a flowerWithout troubling a star Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn From ‘Stoned Immaculate’ by The Doors. Wasn’t looking too good but I was feeling real well From ‘Before They Make Me…

  • A commonplace student’s commonplace book.  Part I

    A commonplace student’s commonplace book.  Part I

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    Julian Rota
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    When I was digging out the poems now published here https://animalwild.blog/2024/05/05/a-poet-called-norrie/ I also came across two notebooks and an envelope file filled with various quotations which I had liked and some occasional writings of my own.  Some of it, especially of the latter, is pretty cringeworthy to say the least, even excruciating, but perhaps not…