Mortality

And we wouldn’t know it for certain until the day of his death. Earlier that day he had taken a

I repeat, this is no more than what a healthy person has to do in slower motion. It is our common fate. In either case, though, one can dispense with facile maxims that don’t live up to their apparent billing.

This is what citizens of the sick country do while they are still hopelessly clinging to their old domicile.

Although the day was bathed in sorrow, there was a magical quality to the afternoon as it spilled into the evening

As against that, the humor is a touch feeble and repetitive, there seems to be almost no talk of sex, and the cuisine is the worst of any destination I have ever visited.

Apparently, one of the symptoms by which it is made known is that a tough veteran will say, seeking to make light of his experience, that “what didn’t kill me made me stronger.” This is one of the manifestations that “denial” takes.

For me, to remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off: the ones that made the sacrifice of the following day a trivial one.

Also, ordinary expressions like “expiration date”… will I outlive my Amex? My driver’s license? People say—I’m in town on Friday: will you be around? WHAT A QUESTION!

In whatever kind of a “race” life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.