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But then why shouldn't he write the dead? He lived with them as much as with the living - perhaps more; and besides, his letters to the living were increasingly mental, and anyway, to the Unconscious, what was death? Dreams did not recognize it.

But then why shouldn't he write the dead? He lived with them as much as with the living - perhaps more; and besides, his letters to the living were increasingly mental, and anyway, to the Unconscious, what was death? Dreams did not recognize it.

Approximate author period: c. 1960 AD · modern

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Saul Bellow
Attribution: attributed
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Approximate author period: c. 1960 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1915 to 2005; Wikidata Q83059, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83059 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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