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“They soon became like brothers from community of wrongs;
They wrote each other little odes and sang each other songs;
They told each other anecdotes disparaging their wives;
On several occasions, too, they saved each other’s lives.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

“Before and After. Yes, with a little work, they can be saved. It is the present, the immediate moment—the During—that is doomed.”
—William Gass (b. 1924)