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  Wednesday  November 9  2005    10: 41 PM

zen for the day


7. Announcement

Tanzan wrote sixty postal cards on the last day of his life, and asked an attendant to mail them. Then he passed away.

The cards read:

I am departing from this world.
This is my last announcement.
          Tanzan.
          July 27, 1892.


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