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"Teach us to care and not to care."
-- T. S. Eliot, "Ash Wednesday"
Related material:
Beth Israel Deaconess,
The House of God,
and, from Is Nothing Sacred?,
the following quotations--
"I know what 'nothing' means."
-- Joan Didion in
Play It As It Lays
"Nothing is random."
-- Mark Helprin in
Winter's Tale
"692" -- Pennsylvania lottery,
Ash Wednesday, 2000;
"hole" -- Page 692,
Webster's New World Dictionary,
College Edition, 1960
"This hospital, like every other,
is a hole in the universe
through
which holiness
issues in blasts.
It blows both ways,
in and out of
time."
-- Annie Dillard in
For the Time Being
(1999)
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