Dickinson on aging
"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought." Emily Dickinson
"When all is said and done, social forces, however real and requiring notice, fall away and reveal, if only for a moment to be sought again and again in rereading, the glory of what [Harold] Bloom tells us is irreducible," Stanley Fish writes. https://t.co/kYE4yOqvUB
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) October 19, 2019
Saw this in my Twitter stream right next to something from @MobyDickatSea, an account that keeps my desire to reread Moby Dick simmering.