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XCI explained

A brief reflection on the possibility of a prior world and the state of dying impenitent.

What happens

A brief reflection on the possibility of a prior world and the state of dying impenitent.

Themes in this chapter

  • Mortality and Regret

    The chapter contemplates death and the notion of dying without repentance.

Key passages

  • If there was a world before this we must all have died impenitent.

    If a previous world existed, then everyone must have died without repenting.

    The narrator speculates on a prior existence and the universal failure to repent.

Poetry — XCI Explained