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In the quote "That's what literature is. It’s the folks that went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to inform us about life and death! hear them!" The author is saying that she sees literature as messages from the past, people that wrote them trying to inform us about life and death, she is trying to mention that reading is the way to listen to them telling us so we do not make future mistakes.
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