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Plague
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Some, often without knowing it, suffered from being deprived of the
company of friends and from their inability to get in touch with them through the usual
channels of friendship, letters, trains, and boats. Others, fewer these, Tarrou may have
been one of them, had desired reunion with something they couldn't have defined, but
which seemed to them the only desirable thing on earth. For want of a better name, they
sometimes called it peace.
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Sensing “the whole world, as it were, placed within the
grasp of the Evil One,” and waiting for death to visit him
too, he wrote, “I leave parchment to continue this work, if
perchance any man survive and any of the race of Adam
escape this pestilence and carry on the work which I have
begun.” Brother John, as noted by another hand, died of the
pestilence, but he foiled oblivion.
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― A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
― A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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