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06/30/11 Radcliffe Bailey Prescribes an Elixir of Multilayered History

In Emily Dickinson’s 1129th poem, she admonishes would-be bearers of the truth to do so, but to “tell it slant.“ Honesty, rendered raw, is “Too bright for our infirm Delight” and thus is better conveyed with both circumspection and compassion, as “The Truth must dazzle gradually / Or every man be blind—.” Honesty, filtered through [...]

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