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What did the title refer to?

posted 7 years ago by Iconoclast321 (386)
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[–] Drooch (5333) 2 years ago

The title is a reference to Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1824 sonnet, which begins "Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life". In his sonnet “Lift Not the Painted Veil…”