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What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure.

Anne Carson

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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
Linguist
Literary Critic
Poet
Professor
Translator
Writer
City of Toronto
Carson
Anne
Bottom
Streaming
Books
Punctuation
Live
Settled
Book
Confusing
Great
Floor
Would
Sentences
Residue
Like
Library
Unforgivable
Adventure
Melted

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