John of Gaunt

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“His pain was too great. He begged me for the simple mercy of death. And I could do nothing else but help him leave a world that had become a sleepless, tortured nightmare to him.”
—Robert D. Andrews, and Nick Grindé. Dr. John Garth (Boris Karloff)

“The gaunt guitarists on the strings
Rumbled a-day and a-day, a-day.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)