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Pulitzer prize-winning author Herman
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woke once wrote within the rectilinear
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boundaries of a hundred and 14th Street
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and one hundred and twentieth Street of
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Broadway and Morningside Drive there is
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a peaceful oasis of the life of the mind
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defiantly independent of the surrounding
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marketplace racket the Manhattan the
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best things of the moment were outside
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the rectangle of Columbia the best
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things of all human history and thought
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were inside if only you had the sense
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you could spend four years in an
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unforgettably exciting and improving
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alternation between two realms of magic
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that doubled magic there's lasting me a
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lifetime
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all my writings such as they are trace
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back in one sense or another to my four
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years at Columbia