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“When you look into a Korean woman’s eyes/ you want to stare/ at something far back/ dark,/ older even than the whole, sad peninsula.”

— Tom Crawford, from the poem “Stones,” published in The Temple on Monday

“A man’s sexual aim … is to convert a creature who is cool, dry, calm, articulate, independent, purposeful into a creature that is the opposite of these; to demonstrate to an animal which is pretending not to be an animal that it is an animal.”

— Kingsley Amis, from One Fat Englishman