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One of the documents I use on a daily basis contains the phrase "Those who have", and every time I read it, Eliot plays inescapably in my head:

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other kingdom

[Here my memory skips forward]

These do not appear:
There, the eyes are
Sunlight on a broken column
There, is a tree swinging
and voices are
In the wind's singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.

Every time. I memorized The Hollow Men in high school and now I can't escape it. Well, none of us can, really.

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