Using Microsoft fonts to solve an international scandal.
The Dead Toreador, by Édouard Manet, c. 1864. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Death
Volume VI, Number 4 | fall 2013
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Sherwood Anderson died in 1941 of peritonitis, having swallowed a toothpick at a party. He was sixty-four. Tennessee Williams choked to death on a plastic eye-drop cap at a hotel in 1983. He was seventy-one.
Epitaph, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
- Ambrose Bierce, 1906Lapham’s
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