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“It took me great self-discipline not to ask the waiter if someone old had ever died on him. “Mr. Smith suffered a heart attack while eating a poached quail egg.” “Mrs. Smith chocked on a piece of smoked artichoke and was not revived.” Good stories for obits.”

peak literature right there.

“A letter—when it’s not coming it means too much, but once arrived, ir never beings enough.”

Maybe the story is getting to me.

i dare say this is going to be terribly tedious. was li's "the book of goose" her one-hit wonder?

In the end, he promised we could go to Disneyland when he came to pick me up and take me home, which cheered me up a little, knowing that at least he intended to survive my summer vacation.

“Una’s death cut the earth from under Samuel’s feet (…). On the other hand Liza, who surely loved her family as deeply as did her husband, was not destroyed or warped.
I think perhaps Liza accepted the word as she accepted the Bible, with all of its paradoxes and its reverses. She did not like death but she knew it existed, and when it came it did not surprise her.”

“He stirs and the air stirs with him, bearing the musk-sweet smell of his body. I think: this is what I will miss. I think: I will kill myself rather than miss it. I think: how long do we have?”