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Blaise Pascal and Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “Questions of Travel"
This morning in my Elizabeth Bishop seminar, we discussed the reference to Blaise Pascal in her 1965 poem "Questions of Travel": "Or could Pascal have been not entirely right / about just sitting quietly in one's room? " I had dug up the line from Pascal's "Pensées": "I have discovered that all
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