The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead: A MemoirKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 5.02.2008 г. - 256 страници NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Weaving together personal anecdote, biological fact, philosophical doubt, cultural criticism, and the wisdom of an eclectic range of writers and thinkers, a book that expertly renders both a hilarious family portrait and a truly resonant meditation on mortality. |
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... night , and water . Francis Thompson wrote , " For we are born in other's pain , / And perish in our own . " Edward Young wrote , " Our birth is nothing but our death begun . " Francis Bacon : " What then remains , but that we still ...
... night of sleep is rare ; 20 percent of the night consists of lying awake . As I constantly have to remind my now light- sleeping father , people ages 73 to 92 awake , on average , 21 times a night owing to disordered breathing . An ...
A Memoir David Shields. July , and less rapid at night . The first and fifth digits grow more slowly ; in severe cold weather , fingernails grow more slowly . From age 30 until 80 , fingernail growth slows by 50 percent . Contrary to ...
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19 | |
Motherhood | 27 |
Hoop Dream ii | 34 |
Rattlesnake Lake | 43 |
3 | 48 |
Boys vs Girls ii | 49 |
Superheroes | 59 |
27 | 112 |
Notes on the Local Swimming Hole | 121 |
Hoop Dream viii | 135 |
Decline and Fall iii | 139 |
The Thing About Life Is That One | 151 |
Boys vs Girls iv | 160 |
29 | 163 |
Death Is the Mother of Beauty | 173 |
Hoop Dreams iv and | 66 |
Ye Olde MindBody Problem | 78 |
Decline and Fall ii | 87 |
14 | 91 |
Bloodline to Star Power ii | 98 |
19 | 103 |
Sex Changes Everything | 104 |
The Trouble with Being Food | 111 |
How to Live Forever i | 181 |
114 | 184 |
How to Live Forever ii | 189 |
Bloodline to Star Power iii | 200 |
The Story Told One Last Time | 211 |
Notes for Eulogy for My Father | 218 |
PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 227 |