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Billy Collins Reads Eamon Grennan

The New Yorker: Poetry

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Exploring Zeno's Paradox through 'Table Talk'

This chapter delves into Billy Collins' poem 'Table Talk', exploring the use of Zeno's paradoxes in the context of discussing St. Sebastian's martyrdom and the concept of objects in motion never reaching their destination.

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