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Originally Posted by Laz116
I think so too.
And as I've said earlier (in this thread I believe) the poetry is the life juxtaposing the dreariness of the content.
It's a book about love and the poetic word. Both can invoke beauty in death. And that is what this book does.
In a world as dead and desolate as can be there is still love. There is still man's imagination. Breathing life into those gray mornings and hopeless forecasts.
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This is exactly the reason that I see it as a simple retread of
The Old Man and the Sea. I just don't get why folks are so excited about a book that doesn't cover any new ground.