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- Author's profession: Playwright
- Nationality: american
- Born: August 31, 1918
- Died: June 14, 1986
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The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in the morning after its troublesome absence at night were noted by people around the world; these phenomena spoke to our ancestors of the possibility of surviving death. Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality.
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