"[D]o you have to know everything to write anything? It can lead to a state of mind either exhausted by the compulsion to decry every injustice, or else paralysed by a puritanical alertness to the politics of everything, a state of mind in which, as [Adrienne] Rich put it later, ‘you cannot eat an egg/ You don’t know where it’s been.’" Stephen Burt • LRB

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