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\u201cI might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And then being able to hang like an affliction round some people’s necks.\u201d \u2014Seamus Heaney,\u00a0the Art of Poetry No. 75<\/a><\/p>\n

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