Now that Trump has been credibly accused me of pedophilic acts, I turned to literary mentions of pedophilia, especially “Lolita.”
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And a woman said, “Tell us of Pain”
Here’s a poem that deals directly with pain, from Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet. I don’t entirely understand it but I’m intrigued by some of its claims: “And a woman spoke, saying, “Tell us of Pain.” And he said: Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of […]
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