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Unread 12-17-2024, 12:41 PM
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Bravo! Nothing much more to say, except it reminded me of Larkin's "The Old Fools," especially these lines from the Larkin poem:

At death, you break up: the bits that were you
Start speeding away from each other for ever
With no one to see. It's only oblivion, true:
We had it before, but then it was going to end,
And was all the time merging with a unique endeavour
To bring to bloom the million-petaled flower
Of being here. Next time you can't pretend
There'll be anything else.
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