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So a colleague approached
me a couple of years ago

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and said there's this book
of his poems from 1946

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through the years in Washington
during the time when he decided

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he just couldn't work for
this government anymore,

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sought political
asylum in France,

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wrote "The Captive Mind"
to justify his leaving

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after being in hiding
because he wasn't sure

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if he was going to be tracked
down by the Polish government

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or not.

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And then found his way
back to writing poetry

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after a couple of years.

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This period, from 1946 to '53.

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So my friend David
Frick who died

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before we finished this
project said to me, let's

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just translate that whole book.

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And I thought, you
can't not do this.