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“A house is really the only solution for anyone. And certainly for me, who desires to immobilize myself like an eternal vegetable.”

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Robert Lowell, Jean Stafford, Peter Taylor.

This I, who used to mouse about the parafinned preserves,
And jammed a finger in the coffee-grinder, serves
        Time before the mirror.
        But this flabby terror…

–Robert Lowell, Poetry, August 1947

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