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Language, at least, may give up the secrets of life and death, leading us through the maze to the original Word as monster or angel, to the mournful place where we may meet Job and hear his cry, 'How long will you vex my soul and break me in pieces with words?

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There must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's own, where the decision must be as individual and solitary as birth or death.

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Bereavement is waiting, waiting for
a known death to be undone.


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Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence; language may be almost as effective.

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Janet Frame

Janet Frame

Born: August 28, 1924
Died: January 29, 2004 (aged 79)
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