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Just arrived at your place.

Thanks for leaving the door open.

I am always disturbed by Heaney’s poems and now I understand why. It’s his personal background, so unlike my own but perhaps now I can get beyond his political and from the “Personal to the Universal”

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Next time we have a thick fog surrounding the place, I'm going to try for my own Brocken Spectre.

I bet I can pull it off.

Is that poem based on Scandinavian or Germanic mythology? Wikipedia is no help.

Heaney's voice sure is evident in the translation.

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Anne of Green Gables is evidently huge in Japan and has been for decades, though I was told that it's because it's used to learn English. The reason for it being popular in Poland is much more interesting!

(The link to the specter is either broken, or I'm just having trouble viewing it.)

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