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"Dying for dark - the darker the worse. Strange."

Samuel Beckett, Irish Playwright

Obscurity, Darkness, Attraction, Desire, Curiosity

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"Dying for dark - the darker the worse. Strange."

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"When we are reading, a voice comes to us as in the dark and whispers, "Imagine!" Samuel Beckettas told by Bill Moyer in the Foreword he wrote for, The Public Library: A Photographic Essay by Robert Dawson. Afterword by Ann Patchett."

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