Some one said: "The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did." Precisely, and they are that which we know. (T. S. Eliot)

Some one said: "The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did." Precisely, and they are that which we know.

T. S. Eliot

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