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Kurt Vonnegut, “Timequake”
Root-Canal Job

Heller said in an interview when he was asked if he feared death. Heller said he had never experienced a root-canal job. Many people he knew had. From what they told him about it, Heller said, he guessed he, too, could stand one, if he had to.

— That was how he felt about death, he said.

death, sacramental
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