TD87 t1_j6lv6z4 wrote
Reply to comment by trowwaith in The letters of T. S. Eliot to Emily Hale that were kept sealed from 1956 to 2020 have been released for free online by RunDNA
"May we all rest in peace." I've never read that sentence before.
AnotherLightInTheSky t1_j6mzb8f wrote
RIP humanity?
It's my default reaction to even municipal level news lol
TD87 t1_j6n0wsq wrote
Lol yeah... I'll read a random article like "Australia commissions 400 new coal plants" and I be like we really gon die smh... But yeah this one hit different coz he wrote it for posterity, knowing that by the time we all read it, he'd be long dead and shit. I guess it made me think about my mortality, but also the context of it all makes it sad... and then there's the matter of it being funny thing to say earnestly.
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