It is snowing!
I see it through a hole
On the paper door
All I can think of
Is that I am lying
In a house in the snow.
- Masaoka Shiki, d. 1902
John Green has written a beautiful book about a horrific reality, namely that we have let 150 million people die of tuberculosis since a cure for the infectious disease was discovered in the 1950s.
"Your pleasure signals our death."
- Sukanta Bhattacharya, d. 1947
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