What I’m seeing: “Let his name shape-shift a little in the ear. Keep the capital P, keep the long O sound, keep the dactylic rhythm of it, but let everything else flicker.”
That’s from this essay by Amit Majmudar at The New Criterion, “On formal restlessness.” If you aren’t familiar with Majmudar, take this opportunity and run with it straight into his g…
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