Spoiler: The radio loop emanated like a siren, but it wasn't as persistent as the budgie in the cage hanging in the window across the alley.
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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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