Sunday, February 17, 2008

The book of life

The will to live – to keep on living – is, at bottom, an overwhelming desire to see what will happen next

Only if it is terminally boring, or unbearably terrifying, do we close the book by act of will, or consent to having it taken away, or hand it over to someone else

Mostly, we just put the book down for a while because we have something better or more pressing to do


LAST HAIKU
No, wait a minute,
I can’t be old already,
I’m just about to ------
Connie Bensley


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