verse that stabs like a knife, unleashing thoughts that have indiscreetely accompanied me daily for almost exactly 34 years:
the sure extinction that we travel to
and shall be lost in always. not to be here,
not to be anywhere,
and soon; nothing more terrible, nothing more
true...
and specious stuff that says no rational being
can fear a thing it will not feel,
not seeing
that this is what we fear...philip larkin's
aubade, as quoted and emphasized by christopher hitchens in his memoir,
hitch 22.
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