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  • I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them - the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings.

    Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.156, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt