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“Death as History, Death as a Habit”

Posted on Wednesday, 25 May 2022Wednesday, 25 May 2022 by Jonathan Wilson

What dark part of my soul shivers: you don’t want to know more about this. And then: you don’t know anything unless you do.

—Mary Oliver, “Every Morning” (March 1986)

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