As nancylebov said, it's there to stress our own mortality. I'm open to suggestions as to how to phrase it more elegantly. I will drop the 'before us' at the start, if i choose to use it at the beginning also. There seems to be a degree of consenses that that would work.
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Date: 2005-10-26 06:15 am (UTC)