The Connecticut (or Hartford or Wicked) Wits were a group of late-18th-century poets who first attempted to write a distinctly American literature. THEY FAILED.
24 February 2012
A wonderfully Augustinian lyric from Leonard Cohen
...on this first Friday of Lent:
When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned.
(From "Sisters of Mercy", The Songs of Leonard Cohen, 1967)
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