Today I heard someone express Harper's move quite eloquently:
He's like a student who knows he's going to fail a test, so he pulls the fire alarm to buy some time.
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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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