in my heart of hearts, i am much a warrior

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A follow up to judas. I'm so normal

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Paradise Lost - John Milton

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tragic heroes

Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky / Macbeth, Macbeth, William Shakespeare Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë / Fantine, Les Misérables, Victor Hugo Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace Beowulf, Unknown / Achilles, The Iliad, Homer Saint Joan, George Bernard Shaw / Juliet Capulet, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman Matthew 27:46

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It's so weird when a celebrity you love dies. Auden wrote of Yeats' death, "A few thousand will think of this day / As one thinks of a day when one did something slightly unusual."

The first such day in my life: I'm 16. Nirvana's singer Kurt Cobain has died, and word is filtering in to my little school in Alabama. Kids are playing Nirvana on boomboxes, sitting in the grass on picnic blankets. This girl named Kate was crying.

I didn't feel like crying, but I still remember the day 30 years later.

The most recent: Today. A footballer I loved, Diogo Jota, died last night (alongside his brother). I found out in a text this morning from a friend who said, "I'm just devastated for his family." And I am. He'd been with his wife since they were teenagers. They had three little kids. Parents just lost two sons in the same moment.

But of course 155,000 people died today. Many of those people left behind kids; many were kids who left behind parents. And so my grief about Jota can't only be that; it must also be that I loved the way he opened up space without the ball, or the deft touch that led to a goal against Everton (his last, as it now happens). It must be that I loved his personality from whatever I gleaned of it in behind-the-scenes videos and so on.

I say, don't let anyone minimize your grief over these losses. You remember them thirty years later because they matter, because the people you lost mattered to you.

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Charles Wright, from "A Journal of the Year of the Ox", The World of Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990 [ID'd]

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How to Be a Poet by Wendell Berry

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last day of august…

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Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West, “All Day Long There Is a Bursting"

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"Somethin' Stupid" - Frank Sinatra and Nancy Sinatra / Pride and Prejudice (2005)

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may your heart always be joyful

may your song always be sung

and may you stay

forever young

Bob Dylan, "Forever Young"

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Our Town, Act 3 - Thornton Wilder

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Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

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tragic heroes

Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky / Macbeth, Macbeth, William Shakespeare Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë / Fantine, Les Misérables, Victor Hugo Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace Beowulf, Unknown / Achilles, The Iliad, Homer Saint Joan, George Bernard Shaw / Juliet Capulet, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman Matthew 27:46