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In which Elizabeth Bishop avoids The Paris Review's interviewer's questions and talks about whatever the heck she wants:

INTERVIEWER

"Did the Depression have much reality for college students in the thirties?"

BISHOP

"Everybody was frantic trying to get jobs. All the intellectuals were communist except me. I’m always very perverse so I went in for T. S. Eliot and Anglo-Catholicism. But the spirit was pretty radical."


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