There's a story I heard John Hodges tell once during a lecture at the Rochester L'Abri conference. T. S. Eliot is doing a reading of some of his poems, Hodges told us, and afterwords a woman stands up during a time for q and a and says "could you explain what (poem) means?" Eliot looks at her, somewhat confused. He pauses. Then he says, "you mean you want me to say it worse?"
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