“No true nun is afraid of death. ‘I wish I knew when I was going to die,’ ninety-six-year-old Dame Frances Anne often said. ‘I wish I knew.’
“‘Why, Dame?’
“‘Then I should know what to read next.'”
Rumer Godden, In This House of Brede
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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