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What can I expect here? You know the fairy tale about the man who died, don’t you? He was waiting in Eternity to find out what the Lord had decided to do with him. He waited and waited, for one year, ten years, a hundred years. He begged and pleaded for a decision. Finally he couldn’t bear the waiting any longer. Then they said to him: ‘What do you think you’re waiting for? You’ve been in Hell for a long time already.

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Men, Thinking, Years

Anna Seghers (2013). “Transit”, p.186, New York Review of Books

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Born: November 19, 1900
Died: June 1, 1983
Occupation: Writer
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