Saturday, November 09, 2024

Said to be Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and Prof. Michael Aris's favorite poem--"When you are old and grey and full of sleep."

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43283/when-you-are-old
Yeats wrote it for Maude Gonne, the Irish activist.
I certainly like this poem too.

This reviewer in Slate likes latest Murakami novel--the walled city--the walled garden.

https://slate.com/culture/2024/11/haruki-murakami-book-city-uncertain-walls-severance-review.html