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Prose proposes, verse reverses.
Time reveals all translation to be paraphrase.
Give your teachers the respect they deserve, because they are the ones who can help you get where you need to go.
Auden, who asked two things of an imagined world-that it be somehow like ours and somehow unlike-would be Ben Marcus's ideal reader, yet even without the poet's dire program, I am altogether taken by this hilarious and sexy alternative universe. Just imagine! it is all done with words instead of mirrors, so much more reliable and so much more heartbreaking. Thus Prospero enthralls his crew.