Word: mementoed
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...MEMENTO MORI?...
Ferris, who believes the volume was “almost certainly rebound” after its initial assembly, sees it as “a kind of memento mori, in the spirit of rings and jewelry made out of the hair of deceased in the 19th century...
...intend it as a memento, something a Harvard grad would want to keep on their coffee table for 40 years,” Steinert says. “You don’t just enjoy it when your graduate, but you enjoy it pretty much for the rest of your life...
...development. Nick becomes smoother, more jaded, and less likeable. He also becomes more tragic—and thus more loveable. Several points in “The Line of Beauty,” most notably the end, are tear-worthy, but the novel is no vanitas piece or memento mori. Hollinghurst once wrote that elegy is “the dominant and inevitable genre of gay fiction.” Yet elegy celebrates life while marking death, and in “The Line of Beauty,” life abounds, enthralls, and intoxicates.And besides, “The Line...
...which is not really an ending at all, but instead a romanticized and flavorless cliffhanger. Overall, “Stay” misses the boat by throwing together a storyline that attempts to combine “The Sixth Sense” and “Memento,” but falls far short of both...