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Westoe Newcastle

Two Caithness standing stones, one with a text from Philip Larkin and the other with a quotation from Antoine de Saint-Exupery. The Larkin text in particular has an extraordinary emotional resonance, the simplicity and beauty of the language activates our awareness of that universal truth, Death, and fills it again with the power to horrify.

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