Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

John Gay’s Epitaph

Life is a jest; and all things show it.
I thought so once; but now I know it.

John Gay (1685-1732), “My Own Epitaph” from The Oxford Book of Death, ed. D. J. Enright, 1983, p. 322.


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