Against Forgiveness

Hey everyone! I am dragging a bit! Pandemic mental health stuff caught up to me, so instead of original content today, I am providing an audio version of my favorite ever column, which was originally titled “Against Forgiveness” and was then changed to “Forgiveness and Time” on Better Strangers.

Then, at the end of the recording, is Dylan Thomas’s reading of W.H. Auden’s “As I walked out one evening,” which is the poem I cite in the beginning.

If you want to read the original text here it is — the article also includes the bit about the poem in from Before Sunrise, as well as links to the books mentioned in the article, which as usual, are Bookshop affiliate links:

Text of Auden’s poem here.

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