Status Updates From The Book Against Death

'He kisses the earth that is preparing to no longer bear his weight.'

'Weapons that kill more easily than ever now kill masses of people, but they have not given up on the methods of killing of individuals of old, they just integrate them with the rest.'

'The worms congratulate him upon his 160th birthday.'

"I have become more tolerant of the people I love. I watch over them less, I grant them their freedom. I think to myself: do this, do that, do what makes you happy, just as long as you live, do whatever you have to against me, if it must be, annoy me, betray me, shove me to the side, hate me—I expect nothing, I want nothing, only the one thing: that you live."

"The curse of having to sie should be turned into a blessing. That we can still die, even when it is unbearable to live."

"And God looks on as one person after another dies."

"I want to know every syllable she could have possibly said in any language. Where is her shadow? Where is her fury? I will loan her my breath. She should walk on my own two legs."

what a waste of an extraordinary premise/promise