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Why write wrong if the writing won’t right the wrong? (90)

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. . . I understand that I was writing (recording) as well as seeking to right (to rectify) the wrong, and now, as I retell the tale, I realize that ‘I am still at the same subject’ still engaged in the same fearful and fierce activity–writing and seeking to right a mortal wrong. (86-87)

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If (or rather when) you move to death, you’ll learn its language through the educational process known as total immersion. (7)

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