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are you an atheist that admits the supernatural?

yes, that's a good description of me. it's like bunting-- jonathan williams refers to bunting as 'my atheist quaker friend'.

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i'm a cheerful and rather superficial person most of the time. i simply don't notice things, so when i seem to be calm and stoical maybe it's because i simply didn't notice them.

--thom gunn interviewed by jim powell
['an anglo-american poet', shelf life; the university of michigan press, 1993]