No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest for…

Don DeLillo
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No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die. ✨ White Noise. Book by Don DeLillo, 1985.
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No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die. ✨ White Noise. Book by Don DeLillo, 1985.

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