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More from Wystan Hugh Auden

  1. In any modern city, a great deal of our energy has to be expended in not seeing, not hearing, not smelling. An inhabitant of New York who possessed the sensory…

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  2. The curious delusion that some families are older than others.

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  3. It is, for example, axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings …

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