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Tip-Off #65 - Deeply shallow

Tip-Off #65 - Deeply shallow

"I live to woo the fearful small... And all the stones have wings." - Theodore Roethke

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Notes and reading at the end.

Men start loving at the wrong end. They begin at the climax. No wonder it is so miserable.  

"Son, do you know how love should be begun? The boy sat small and listening and still. Slowly he shook his head. The old man leaned closer and whispered: 'A tree. A rock. A cloud.'"

- Carson McCullers

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