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    The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
    —Henry James (1843–1916)

    He promised
    that life would go on as usual,
    that treaties would be signed, and everyone—
    man, woman and child—would be inoculate
    against a world in which we had no part,
    a world of money, promise and disease.
    —James Welch (b. 1940)