Charlatan, some things are doomed to die a slow death, and then we take a while (sometimes a long while) to recover from the hangover. Kind of like with Romanticism...and postmodernism.
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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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