"My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close"

"My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close" was a poem by Emily Dickinson. It contained the verse, "Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell."

In the 2000s,^{[nb 1]} Jack Harkness and Kathy Swanson tried it out as a possible passcode to unlock the Torchwood Hub, but it was actually the ISBN to Emily Dickinson: The Complete Poems. (TV: They Keep Killing Suzie)

Footnotes[]

↑ Episodes 1-10 of the first series of Torchwood are set anywhere from 2006-2009 as a result of conflicting evidence shown in the episodes Ghost Machine, Greeks Bearing Gifts, Random Shoes, To the Last Man, Reset, Adrift, Fragments, Exit Wounds, and The New World. As episode 10, Out of Time, is set at the end of December, this means that episodes 11-13 are almost certainly set the year after episodes 1-10.

External links[]

The complete poem at Wikisource

[1] Episodes 1-10 of the first series of Torchwood are set anywhere from 2006-2009 as a result of conflicting evidence shown in the episodes Ghost Machine, Greeks Bearing Gifts, Random Shoes, To the Last Man, Reset, Adrift, Fragments, Exit Wounds, and The New World. As episode 10, Out of Time, is set at the end of December, this means that episodes 11-13 are almost certainly set the year after episodes 1-10.

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