Okay, now picture this but in manuscript form (yes, maintaining the colour, font, and alignment choices).
Now picture that manuscript on my desk, with a sincere letter attached to it requesting me to consider it for publication in a book....for profit.
Welcome to my life.
(I wish I were kidding.)
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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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