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A Clean Breast

Posted in Death, Literature by Greg Ross on March 18th, 2009

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As he lay dying in 1635, Lope de Vega asked whether the end was at hand. Assured that it was, he murmured, “All right, then, I’ll say it. Dante makes me sick.”