A wonderful interview with @JoyceCarolOates, channels Spanish pre-renaissance poet Jorge Manrique: do not waste time on the ephimeral things of this life and work only on the things that stay- writing- those give you inmortality.
See Manrique in my reply
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/16/magazine/joyce-carol-oates-interview.html https://t.co/XaXnEku2Ud

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