[HN Gopher] A Smiling Public Man
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       A Smiling Public Man
        
       Author : crescit_eundo
       Score  : 30 points
       Date   : 2025-05-30 16:55 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | libraryofbabel wrote:
       | Much of interest here if you're into poetry and Seamus Heaney. It
       | surprised me to learn that he taught at Berkeley in 1970, at the
       | height of the counterculture. Funny to think of him shuffling
       | through the hippies in his tweed jacket, gently disabusing the
       | students in his poetry class of their belief that they're the
       | next Allen Ginsberg.
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       | He also just comes across as a friendly and kind guy mostly
       | contented with his life. Rather unusual in a writer!
        
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