Word: dodderer
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Scythe and all, John Death comes to Dodder with a parchment signed in flame ordering him to unclay Joe Bridle and his truelove Susie Dawes. Death drops the parchment by Joe Bridle's pond; Joe hides it under his shirt. At a loss for once, Death rents a house in Dodder to await the discovery of his parchment, or new orders from above...
When he reached 80, his friends and relatives were amazed at the continued clarity and vigor of his mind. His bristly sideburns were pure white; wrinkles had deepened and his gold-barred spectacles were made of thicker glass. But he would not reminisce, dodder or preach plaintively like an ordinary old man. "With him," they said, "it is always the next month, the next year, the future of humanity...