Since this birthday was a milestone, I wanted to throw him some big brandon bashes (note: those are parties where we celebrate not bash brandon). We basically had three big celebrations, and I will do a post for each.
We began on the banks of the Brazos River, for a picnic and a reciting of T.S. Eliot's, The Four Quartets. Luckily, our friends and fellow party-goers (or party-throwers, I should say) are English grad students and know about poetry (definitely more than the nothing that I know). They are also skilled at beautifully reading aloud, and it was a treat to be read to.
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The Four Quartets was almost as beautiful as the company in which we read it. I highly recommend the poem (and I've heard that it is best when read aloud). Happy Birthday to Brandon (part 1)!
“My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people,
who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.'
'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.”
“My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people,
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