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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.

Anne Carson

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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
Linguist
Literary Critic
Poet
Professor
Translator
Writer
City of Toronto
Carson
Anne
Ends
Past
Live
Thing
Perilous
Myth

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