Length Withought Breath
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- World without end, Amen: the closing words of the prayer Gloria Patri ("Glory Be to the Father")
- thought
- breath → length without breath suggests the corpse of HCE laid out lengthwise, breathless → hence the allusion to death (Tod) in the margin