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From an email to my grads:
This isn’t my 1st rodeo, but it might be yours — & I wish like hell it wasn’t. But one of the reasons I’m a literary historian is that the work reminds me I'm one of a long, long line of those who have imagined better, & more importantly, worked for better, come what may.