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Ernest Hemingway

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

"Turning off the electric light he continued the conversation with himself...What did he fear? It was not fear or dread. It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too...Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it was already nada y pues nada y pues nada. Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee..."