Hints and tips:
...As her essay “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, a piece of reportage from San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury district in 1967, arrestingly announced: “The centre was not holding....
...There were puns and pop culture references, evocations of Goya and Bosch, nods to Kafka, Yeats, Dante and Pound, as well as Keats....
...We are currently minded to publish a midweek newsletter, written sequentially by Lexers in London, New York, San Francisco and Hong Kong....
...In San Francisco a biotech called Calico has been set up to find ways to halt ageing. Perhaps it will fail as all previous longevity-merchants have, but I wouldn’t count on it....
...Books, from the poetry of Yeats to her father’s book on butterflies of the West Indies and South Florida, line the shelves and rise in stacks from her office floor....
...He begins with poetry (his own and that of Rilke, Wordsworth, Yeats and many others), and then broadens out into conversation and reflection....
...Something the poet William Butler Yeats knew all too well when he wrote more than a century ago: “I know what wages beauty gives.”...
...Afterwards we eat Chinese and Nack talks Yeats and Mencken, as literate sports writers do, which beats debating the cosmic things....
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