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Never say die.(current social views of death)
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and wetly away.
--Psalm 90:10
Death is nature's way of telling us to slow down.
--Anon
IN ONE OF ms shorter pieces, Jorge Luis Borges gives us an outline for a story he never wrote. That story outline concerns a young man called "Funes the Memorious". Funes is a bit strange. He spends most of his short life in his bed just staring into space. At his wake, a few people begin to discuss his life. One of them suggests a startling reason for Funes' seeming lack of ...
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