Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours. - John Updike

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John Updike: "Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours."

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Attempts	Bankruptcy	Beyond	Condition
Conditions	Into	Investigate	Knows
Lives	Might	Necessarily	Obscene
Ours	Passed	Sacred	Spiritualism
State	Theologians

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