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XXIX

Pour away that youth
That overflows the heart
Into hair and mouth;
Take the grave's part,
Tell the bone's truth.

Throw away that youth
That jewel in the head
That bronze in the breath;
Walk with the dead
For fear of death.

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XXI

I dreamed of an out-thrust arm of land
Where gulls blew over a wave
That fell along miles of sand;
And the wind climbed up the caves
To tear at a dark-faced garden
Whose black flowers were dead,
And broke round a house we slept in,
A drawn blind and a bed.
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Within the dream you said:
Let us kiss then,
In this room, in this bed,
But when all's done,
We must not meet again.

Hearing this last word,
There was no lambing-night,
No gale-driven bird
Nor frost-encircled root
As cold as my heart.

3⭐️ I enjoyed the early part of Jill, with descriptive campus narrative, and strong characterizations. While the kids in The Secret History inhaled drugs and alcohol, the pupils in Jill have afternoon tea with cakes and scones 👨‍🎓It starts getting weird in the middle, with the main character - poor student John Kemp - becoming a totally different version of himself. Still a good college novel, though.

I shall do this for my kanji exercise

My current read 😍 and am loving it so far. It‘s quite similar to Old School. College setting is my fav… especially the ones in early 20th century. Sigh… I just want to jump into the story and be one of the characters.

4⭐️ I chose this book because I heard somewhere about the protagonist working in a library 😆 This is also my first Larkin, and I liked his writing style. It‘s about adolescence vs adulthood, and how we see things differently through different ages.

I also found out that this is the second book of a trilogy. The first one is Jill, and I‘m happy that my library has it. Larkin never finished the third.

I have to go ask Oblomov to decipher this for me. He‘s the master of doing nothing 😅

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