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418 "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson

The History of Literature

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Is There a Contemplation Too?

A man smoked three packs of cigarettes a day for 52 years. The doctors told him he had large lungs, which somehow saved him that and some kind of lottery like luck. He was saying how miraculous it is that heis still alive. But there's er a contemplation too, would that smoking? Maybe not.

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