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Sunday, December 8, 2024

Gerard Manley Hopkins Was My Second Cousin 3x Removed

 !!! Thank you to Lexi, the family genealogist. And in celebration of that fact, here's friend Seamus Perry in conversation with Mark Ford about his work. 

So much to say. I teach him all the time. “Horrible to say, in a manner I am a Communist.” For a Jesuit this is not bad at all: “it is a dreadful thing for the greatest and most necessary part of a very rich nation to live a hard life without dignity, knowledge, comforts, delight, or hopes in the midst of plenty—which plenty they make...”




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