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An Answer to the Problem of Late Language

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The Great War has concussed the world.

Transamerica, by Colum McCann

planet earth close-up photography
a stunning, damaging hard blow

It’s a simple sentence, and so emotionally powerful.

Countless books have been written about the two wo…

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