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Aug.2: 郭雨新；Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and he spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. Wikipedia
Born: October 2, 1879, Reading, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: August 2, 1955, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Poems: The Snow Man, The Emperor of Ice-Cream, MORE
Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Bollingen Prize, National Book Award for Poetry, Robert Frost Medal
Quotes
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.



As an aging insurance man, Wallace Stevens rose to Vice-President of the firm. As a poet, he found time to write—and punch Ernest Hemingway—on drunken solo vacations to Florida.

The Thrilling Mind of Wallace Stevens
How an introverted insurance executive in a three-piece suit created some of the most radiant poetry of the twentieth century.
NEWYORKER.COM


【歷史上的今天】
8月2日，是臺灣政治家郭雨新的紀念日。
郭雨新戰後曾擔任省議員長達25年的時間，不管是以前還是現在，都是一項很厲害的成就啊！來看看選舉常勝軍的選舉小撇步及如何落敗～
要選贏除了民眾的支持，曝光率也是很重要的！從1951年郭雨新擔任省議員開始，每年宜蘭鄉親都會收到印有十二生肖和廿四節氣的「春牛圖」月曆，月曆中間就是郭雨新的照片，就像議員也在陪伴鄉民的忙碌生活，兼顧實用與宣傳（簡直是現在面紙和扇子宣傳的始祖！）
1975年的立委選舉，郭雨新的落敗也是轟轟烈烈打破全世界選舉史上廢票的最高紀錄（八萬張！）而且之後挖馬路還發現一大袋投給郭雨新的選票，真的是太神秘了！好孩子不要學，大家一定要認真監票投票啊！
更詳細的郭雨新介紹：
郭雨新～讓宜蘭成為台灣民主聖地的奠基者
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數位典藏：郭雨新
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