Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still alive and breathing because I went over to say hi. She tried to say hi back, but she didn't have the energy to. She waved her hand and moaned." A few days earlier, Sylvia had told Jenny: "I know you don't want me to die, but I'm going to die and I know...
...aging lioness with the mad grey mane and a brow like Beethoven's sat writing under the strong blue light she loved. "Go away slowly, slowly, without tears; forget nothing! Go away adorned, and do not stop on the irresistible way, do not stop for rest except to die. And if you have, to the very end, kept in your hand the friendly hand that guides you, then lie down smiling, sleep as one privileged...
Bartok & Hysteria. Simone de Beauvoir did not spring, like Minerva, full armed from the head of Jove. She had a mother, and the bitter title of her book was a nursing nun's obituary of Mme. de Beauvoir, who died of cancer, saying, "I'm too tired to pray: God is kind." It is a painful book to read, not least because the reader is unsure to the end whether natural piety toward the author's mother will prevail against her severe atheist principles. Mother was 77, "of an age to die," when she was attacked...
...might sincerely weep for a relative . . . if I met a woman of fifty overcome with sadness because she had lost her mother, I thought her neurotic." Then her rage against the fact of death asserts itself. "There is no such thing as a natural death . . . you do not die of being born, nor from having lived, nor from old age." To which the only answer is that there is such a thing. Man does die of being born, from having lived and from...
...Timbuktu). And although the effect is morbid, it is by far the best part of the book, which is otherwise devoted to a soporific account of the family genealogy. Death watches can be questioned on grounds of taste, but it is certainly true that Willie Maugham did not die well...