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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.