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And, yes, what better way to welcome a new life into the world than with a gift that is designed to kill things? I think it would have been more suitable for the grandfather to have given something generative instead—like pornography.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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