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John Thompson: Last Testament

“Berryman knew the depths and knew how it would end. Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. But he rendered also as who else ever has the wrong and outrageous heights—the ‘highs’ as they say now with the proper note of cheapness—mere fun and wrong, wrong.”

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