Abandon Rome.
‘‘ So go ahead and follow in my footsteps and put this place behind you or try, anyway.
Abandon Rome, if you think you can.
You’ll be back, again and again you’ll be back, because Bennington is the Rome inside you, a place where you came to make yourselves and one another ready to leave,
and in doing so made it a place you’ll never ‘‘
finish leaving.
Never finish leaving.
—Jonathan Lethem ’86, renowned novelist and MacArthur “Genius,” addressing Bennington’s graduating class of 2005.
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