Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. (Craig Raine)

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.

Craig Raine

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