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The crossing begins at one o’clock in the afternoon; a good 23 hours before Washington ever stepped into a boat, though, perhaps, this is for the best:  children have been up for hours now, and to ask them to stay awake in the Titusville cold a shade before the crushing disappointment of December 26th would [...]

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It is best to begin with Wallace Stevens. “One must have a mind of winter … not to think / Of any misery in the sound of the wind.” I frequently return to that first half of the singular syntactic unit that constitutes “The Snow Man” because I vacillate between a lack of comprehension and [...]

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