It was a day when every book repels, when each title brings a dispiriting ennui. Zapata and the Mexican Revolution? I don’t think so: out of Mexico always the same thing. The Second Plane? No, Martin, I think we’ll give that a miss. What Remains to be Discovered: Mapping the Secrets of the Universe, the Origins of Life, and the Future of the Human Race? Not just now, Sir John. Then I had a bright idea—why not poetry? So reaching up I took down from my shelves an old Penguin with the following title: The Centuries’ Poetry: An Anthology Compiled…
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