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Adam's Curse: As Weary-Hearted as that Hollow Moon

Adam's Curse: As Weary-Hearted as that Hollow Moon

Update: 2025-10-16
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Today, Erika Kyba reads "Adam's Curse" by William Butler Yeats. Yeats muses on how all beautiful and lovely things require labor...and how this laboring after the beautiful has become an "idle trade" in the hollow age of modernity.

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Adam's Curse: As Weary-Hearted as that Hollow Moon

Adam's Curse: As Weary-Hearted as that Hollow Moon

Erika Kyba