Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told – told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all the great hurts. Each one was pulled out of him, detail by detail, inch by inch. The demon stripped away the cover of forgetfulness, stripped everything down to truth, and it hurt more than anything. Neil Gaiman
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In the poem, "Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone," by Robert Frost, the speaker describes a process by which a person's bad deeds and wrongdoings are revealed. In order to extract the truth from a person, you must strip away all of their defenses and turn a negative into a positive. In this poem, it seems as though the speaker wants the reader to know everything about his life story. He starts by saying that each bad deed or wrong thing he has ever done has been pulled out of him, detail by detail, inch by inch.

The line "strip everything down to truth" is very significant in this regard because it means that we must be willing to look at everything we do and see all of its bad effects on our lives and on others. This is what makes us human: we are flawed and we make mistakes.

Source: Fragile Things: Short Fictions And Wonders

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