07-31-2015, 08:16 PM
"What drives people to write poetry?"
I've been reading "Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt
and Mary McCarthy" for pretty much the same reason. My wife had left it
on a table and the cats knocked it off onto the floor. I picked it up to put it back...
but I opened it and started reading it because I needed to change the car's oil
and I don't like changing the car's oil. Hannah Arendt had a standard reply
(which she thought was artless and dismissive and quite appropriate) for
questions like this: "Life."
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions