stackyFACTSDying in the nineteenth century came with a complimentary fiction upgrade. Newspapers routinely transformed mundane fatalities into tragically poetic departures, turning a guy who simply fell into a ditch into a noble soul who succumbed to the overwhelming melancholy of the earth.
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