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So then you’re left with a choice. Do you trust your English teacher, or do you trust Ezra Pound? It shouldn’t be too hard a decision. You trust the madman. And so you learn Mandarin and Provencal and Hebrew and Greek, and, and you go on to lead a life of poverty and hardship.

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Helen DeWitt from last night’s celebration of New Directions’ seventy-fifth anniversary.

(thank you, towirr)

Hers was one of my favorites. Did you get any books?

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