Raj Telhan

Raj Telhan

@rajtelhan.bsky.social

Physician. Writer. Contrib Editor @VQR. Words @VQR, @TheAmScho, @guardian. Best American Science & Nature Writing. Staige D. Blackford Prize for Nonfiction.

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We Need Robert Frost - Liberties A boy is out doing a man’s work with a chainsaw, when his sister comes to call him in for supper. Suddenly, the chainsaw leaps and cuts deep into his hand. The boy looks at the bleeding gash and begs ...

I loved this essay in Liberties by Mark Edmundson.

Frost's "No memory of having starred / Atones for later disregard..." reminds me of Emerson's own: "Life only avails, not the having lived."

"Out, Out--" is as moving as it ever was and Mark's close reading deepened my appreciation.

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