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This passage appears after Doc reads a sad, nostalgic poem to the people at his surprise birthday party. The poem itself is an eleventh-century Sanskrit poem called “Black Marigolds,” which is largely about a man’s memory of a loved one on the eve of his potential death. When Doc finishes reading this aloud, everyone is stunned by how emotional they feel. Hazel, for his part, is deeply moved just by “the sound of the words.” Indeed, the cadence of “Black Marigolds” ushers in a “little world sadness” that settles over the party, but Steinbeck makes no indication that this is…