Patrick Kurp on Philip Larkin

A post that moves me to find Larkin's Letters to Monica.  Kurp quotes Larkin:

I seem to walk on a transparent surface and see beneath me all the bones and wrecks and tentacles that will eventually claim me: in other words, old age, incapacity, loneliness, death of others & myself . . . .

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