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The definition of hell: On your last day on earth, the person you became will meet who you could have become.

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The definition of hell is: On your last day on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become. –Anonymous

The definition of hell is: On your last day on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become. –Anonymous

Forty years ago, I entered (yes, entered—it’s a room) Marcel Duchamp’s masterpiece Étant donnés at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Professor Philip Rieff had explained that the work was a temptation to glimpse into the horror of one’s own unconscious. Peepholes drilled into an old barn door lure visitors across a mysterious antechamber to peer through... on the other side lies a dead, mangled nude woman, sprawled in a stream and clutching a lighted gas lamp in broad daylight. The horror is not what we see but what we experience—the........

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