Ben Dolnick quote ✍️

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I would love to love Saul Bellow, but by page fifty of 'Herzog', something within me has wandered into another room.
Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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E
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E
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N
Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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