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Rhetorical Happenings: A discussion of Hoa Nguyen, “Long Light.”

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Can Love Everyone?

Kate Winslet: I don't think that there's a resolute answer to the question can one love everything. The play is not about definitive questions and answers but just about kind of meandering, she says. She asks if someone would read this poem maybe a student or an eighth grader how would you paraphrase those last two lines? "I see tension in the immediacy we need to empty the ash from orchimanaya" 'There's something about the need for that to be clean or empty or that's space to be open'  "-Can Love Everyone," by William Makepeace Thackeray (1881-1962)

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