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In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks that we wish to perpetuate; it is the self as the window on the world that we can't bear to thinkof shutting. My mind when I was a boy of ten or eleven sent up its silent scream at the thought of future aeons -- at the thought of the cosmic party going on without me. The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise of the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
John Updike Self-Consciousness afterlife life

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Unscramble JOHN4-letter words that start with J4-letter words that end in N4-letter words containing OH4-letter words containing HN4-letter words with J and O
Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
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NEE
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AND STILL ___
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