"the no-thing" = death or nothingness

[Jonathan Lighter]

Absent from OED, present on the 'Net:

  2006 Reneh Karamians in _Philosophy Now_ (Sept.-Oct.) 10: Music provides the illusion of escape from time and therefore escape from anxiety and the no-thing.

  JL


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