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For those who might not know the reference this is "This Be The Verse" by Philip Larkin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Larkin https://en.wikipedia.org/w
by pacaro 5y ago
For those who might not know the reference this is
"This Be The Verse" by Philip Larkin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Larkin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Larkin
- pacaro 5y agoA little more digging finds that it was written in 1971, so echoing in a sense other comments on here that this isn't such a new observation
- klenwell 5y agoBut "the verse" in question refers to the Old Testament: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestral_sin#Judaism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestral_sin#Judaism