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… Margaret Spufford loved truth, loved people, loved to laugh – despite it all | Andrew Brown | Comment is free | theguardian.com. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

I don't know that she believed in an afterlife in any well-defined sense: but she believed this world was interfused with another, perhaps with an eternity, and that this might at any moment break through into ours. This faith enabled her to face, without flinching, cruelties that make ordinary people writhe and hide.