Each heart has its graveyard, each household its dead, And knells ring around us wherever we tread, And … - Dan Simmons

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Dan Simmons

Each heart has its graveyard, each household its dead, And knells ring around us wherever we tread, And the feet that awhile made our pathway so bright Pass on to a land that is out of our sight.

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There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger that had provoked it. Conservative columnists acidly pointed out that hungry people don't steal stereo systems first and called for a crackdown in law enforcement. All of the reasoned editorials sounded hollow in light of the perverse randomness of the event. It was as if only a thin wall of electric lighting protected the great cities of the world from total barbarism.

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What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods?

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God is found in this Life. . . to wait for another is folly.

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