I had read the Adrian Mitchell before, but looked it up on reading this and was (again) incensed. Because the second stanza of the Larkin is one of the most beautiful descriptions of compacted trauma I have ever read, and because as you say in the post, it's the resignation of Larkin that makes it.
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Date: 2015-10-08 05:00 pm (UTC)