“To be completed is to be finished in so many ways!”

— R. A. Lafferty

Source: Arrive at Easterwine (1971), Ch. 6
Context: Gaetan had always had a terrible finality about him. Was this his great sin — that he was already completed? I will intercede for him tonight in my own not entirely mechanical way. To be completed is to be finished in so many ways! May that twinkling man Gaetan be undone a little and saved.

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American writer 1914–2002

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