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20201111 Wednesday

Flower demo

Sonnet 76

Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
So far from variation or quick change?
Why with the time do I not glance aside
To new-found methods, and to compounds strange?
Why write I still all one, ever the same,
And keep invention in a noted weed,
That every word doth almost tell my name,
Showing their birth, and where they did proceed?
O know, sweet love, I always write of you,
And you and love are still my argument,
So all my best is dressing old words new,
Spending again what is already spent:
   For as the sun is daily new and old,
   So is my love still telling what is told.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50647/sonnet-76-why-is-my-verse-so-barren-of-new-pride

Keeping them closed while allowing other retailers who sell books to remain open was “potentially ruinous commercially and is also morally problematic”, she wrote.

Ruinous 破滅 荒廃

James Daunt, chief executive of Waterstones, agreed. “It’s not really very helpful when we all go bust and the big guys are going to be OK. It’s ridiculous, and it’s a tragedy.”

Go bust 破産する

“We know that there is no demonstrable evidence for retail locations being the locus of infections.”

locus of 中心

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/10/englands-bookshops-should-be-classed-as-essential-booksellers-argue