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What did Henry James call “the Distinguished Thing”?

July 13, 2020September 4, 2011 by Pamela Landy

Henry James called Death “the Distinguished Thing”.

James used the phrase when he said “so it has come at last, the Distinguished Thing” after suffering a stroke on December 2, 1915, two months before his death in 1916.

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