With the aid of a minute correction - that of the dispersing lens - in a gold frame perched on her nose, Miranda can see into hell.

Ingeborg Bachmann
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  3. What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven. - Chuck Palahniuk

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