HOMAGE TO WBY
after you read all them books
all that history and philosophy and things
what do you know that you didn’t know before?
Thin sheets of gold with bright enameling
23:xi:63
—Philip Whalen
Literary interlude
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James, it’s actually supposed to be WBY, I believe – so…William Butler Yeats.
Fixed. Aaargh.
Thanks, David.