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232 pages, Paperback
First published August 27, 2024
My father was a gardener. Now he’s a garden.
Only the storytellers survive, but they, too, will die one day.
Only the stories survive.
And the garden, which my father had planted before he died.
I love Epicurus, my daughter says out of the blue.
Wasn’t he one of those slaves-turned-philosophers? I ask.
No, she replies, taking a certain satisfaction in correcting me, he was the first to allow slaves and women to join his school. ‘Why should I fear Death? If I am, then Death is not. If Death is, then I am not,’ that’s what Epicurus says.
No hay nada que temer.