Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet
eating her curds and whey,
along came a spider,
who sat down beside her
And said "What's in the bowl bitch?!"
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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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