11 FEBRUARY 1989, page 42

Not Hereafter

It isn't fear of death I find So disconcerting in my mind, As niggling fears that there might be An after-life where some of me Still clung like creeper, intimations Of my lost......

The Victor Hugo Of Historians

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To Understand All Is . . .

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