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Emily Dickinson

“The open-ended dash, breathless, was her pause of choice, dashes in all sizes and shapes: short, long, slant, each prying the door ajar. Nouns stand at attention, capitalized and substantive.”

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source: description of Emily Dickinson’s writing, in White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson (New York: Anchor Books, 2009), 75.

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“Considering her inordinate reclusiveness, who then walked Emily Dickinson’s huge dog?”

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source: Vanishing Point: A Novel (Washington, DC: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004), 150.

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“…if Emily Dickinson owned a restaurant it would be Chez Panisse.”

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source: Eating: A Memoir (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009), 132.

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