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Ishmael Wallace
Jan 06, 2025
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Dear Friends,

Happy New Year!

In last week’s Castalia I wrote of “the mouths of earth”, an image from Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe’s first novel; I wrote that, to escape these mouths, we flee to the clouds.

This morning, I am so happy, as the great ship of his second, Of Time and the River, begins to move out from the quay, to find flight to the clouds emerge as a theme:

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