Consolatio

On his deathbed, Lope de Vega dares to dislike Dante

All right, now I 'll say it. Dante makes me sick.

      --Lope de Vega (1562-1635), Spanish poet and playwright, on his deathbed

De acuerdo, entonces, lo diré: Dante me hace enfermar.

Carrie Fisher: Life can be just as demanding as death

 

After Greg died I stopped talking. It was as if my personality followed him down the dark passage of death and left someone who looked a lot like me....The thing about someone dying, though, is that life goes on. While your loved one is busy relaxing in their cozy coffin, you still have appointments, a job, friends, children —-a whole parcel of  living things pulling on you to get on with it. I mean, life can be just as demanding as death, in its own way.