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life’s pursuit has been without meaning. I imagine his words finding their place in Vincent’s notebook, Vincent knowing that they raised the hairs on the back of the neck as surely as anything in Housman or Sebald. Knowing what to do with a donnée, how to throw it into relief, is a crucial skill in anyone who works with words. In the case of one as well-travelled as Vincent in the dark as well as bright places of heart and mind, poems such as ‘Check-out’ act as a penumbra, the necessary