The Death Diaries
They say that there are only two things you can be certain of in life – Death and taxes.
Well I’ve paid plenty of taxes.
(The Death Diaries is a book on death that I have had on the back boiler for a number of years!)
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Hey Opher – Certainties of life, ‘death and taxes’, might also include a ‘ time to live and a time to die’.
It could be suggested that this modern perspective is a truncation of Ecclesiastes 3, 1-8:
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
One wonders quite what season the world is in right now?
Good luck with the back-boiler book.
DN
I think we are in mid-winter right now – surrounded by bleakness and the spirits are low – but there is always a Spring and a reblossoming!
As for the Death Diaries – I seem to have misplaced it somewhere. I have fragments left. It is something I will go back to at some point. I still like the idea of it.
Too many ideas – not enough time!