Count on ol' Kermode to be straightforward in a world full of masturbating literary critics.

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Among the other gems in his dissent were:

Really? Who ever thought that intimacy and spirituality (whatever that means) were freedoms? And if intimacy is, one would think Freedom of Intimacy is abridged rather than expanded by marriage. Ask the nearest hippie.

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The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfCK-1BgPTo#t=33

Andy Barr wrote about this back in ‘09, if you’re interested in how bafflingly accurate this comparison is: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19722.html

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I feel out of the loop—what does this mean?? I don’t have instagram, but I also have almost no Twitter followers!

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These lines expand the scope of the poem’s setting—zooming out from a flower and frost on the ground to capture the Sun’s movement—and in doing so they call our attention to how little this death matters to Nature.
It’s worth keeping in mind that the Sun was what originally gave life to the “happy Flower,” which renders its indifference all the more callous.

Once again, the theological doubt is anticipated with the allusion to the creation story in the first chapter of Genesis:

[16] And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
[17] And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
[18] And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

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