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Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #204 - What is the point in life? : The Red Hand Files

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Dear Beau,To understand the point in life we must first understand what it is to be human. It seems to me that the common agent...

Issue #204 / September 2022 BEAU, ESSEX, ENGLAND GIORGIO DE CHIRICO - THE DIVINE HORSES, 1963 Dear Beau, To understand the point in life we must first understand what it is to be human. It seems to me that the common agent that binds us all together is loss, and so the point in life must be measured in relation to that loss. Our individual losses can be small or large. They can be accumulations of losses barely registered on a singular level, or full-scale cataclysms. Loss is absorbed into our bodies from the moment we are cast from the womb until we end our days, subsumed by it to…

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