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“The English social anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer, in his 1965 Death, Grief, and Mourning, had described this rejection of public mourning as a result of the increasing pressure of a new “ethical duty to enjoy oneself,” a novel “imperative to do nothing which might diminish the enjoyment of others.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“This is my attempt to make sense of the period that followed, weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I had ever had about death, about illness, about probability and luck, about good fortune and bad, about marriage and children and memory, about grief, about the ways in which people do and do not deal with the fact that life ends, about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“We might, in that indeterminate period they call mourning, be in a submarine, silent on the ocean’s bed, aware of the depth charges, now near and now far, buffeting us with recollections.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“Given that grief remained the most general of afflictions its literature seemed remarkably spare.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“Because the reality of death has not yet penetrated awareness, survivors can appear to be quite accepting of the loss.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
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