THE OPEN LETTER ERIC DAVID HELMS I. In one’s mind the Latin locution carpe diem ought to be realized as “pluck the day,” not “seize the day,” Paul Chowder announces in Nicholson Baker’s 2009 novel The Anthologist, nodding to the Lyre passed from Apollo to Orpheus. As both
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