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wordsworthesq's avatar

Beautiful, Robert. You catch a band at a time that it had a way forward and lost it with Blondie and Ricky's departure and the phenomenal success of Endless Summer. Sail on Sailor as a song is oddly true to their legacy but also a glorious rethink. And your essay captures all that and more, demonstrating why the Boys had relevance even if only diehards could hear it

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William Poulos's avatar

Now that you mention it, I think that “two ways and I both travel by, and that has made all the difference to me" is a more accurate reading of Frost's poem than the one most people give. In that poem, Frost mentions more than once that the paths are basically the same - it's only at the end that he decides he took the one "less traveled." There is an element of Frost wanting it both ways, too.

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