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Tomorrow we’ll be blown sky high

People who triumph in this world don’t last long

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Shaun Usher
Feb 05, 2021
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On August 24th of 1945, weeks after atomic bombs decimated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, American writer Malcolm Cowley sent a letter to his friend, the philosopher and poet Kenneth Burke.

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