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Monday, August 07, 2017

How to Live to the Full While Drifting Toward The Infinite


“Not every man knows what he shall sing at the end” - Mark Strand

Hardly any writer has chronicled their own drift toward death with more dignified composure and attentive aliveness than Alice James (August 7, 1848–March 6, 1892) — sister of pioneering psychologist William James and novelist Henry James — in The Diary of Alice James.

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