I didn't read 1984 or The Stone Angel. The former wasn't on my reading list, but some of my friends had it. I was supposed to read The Stone Angel, but I didn't.
I read both of them years later and enjoyed them thoroughly.
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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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