Consolatiotag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1029872023-03-15T17:55:13+01:00Consolation in time of griefTypePadW.S. Merwin: For the Anniversary of My Deathtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c82d353ef02b751765fd1200b2023-03-15T17:55:13+01:002023-03-15T17:54:46+01:00Elegy Who would I show it to —W.S. Merwin (1927–2019) https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-final-prophecy-of-w-s-merwinSeduliaJames Joyce on Truthtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c82d353ef02b7519ab5c4200c2023-03-15T17:51:11+01:002023-03-15T17:55:35+01:00Truth deals largely with us. —James Joyce (1882–1941), "The Day of the Rabblement" (1901) He is now in the way of Truth. Tha e nis air slighe na fùinne. (Gaelic proverb. He is dying.) He is now on the sod...SeduliaThoreau on his deathbedtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c82d353ef02b7519ab46c200c2023-03-15T17:18:52+01:002023-03-15T17:56:43+01:00Then I spoke only once more to him....I think my question was substantially this: "You seem so near the brink of the dark river, that I almost wonder how the opposite shore may appear to you?" He then answered: "One...SeduliaGeorge Eliot: unvisited tombstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c82d353ef02a2eed9bd93200d2022-10-17T04:58:22+02:002023-03-15T17:59:32+01:00The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life,...SeduliaChekhov: The profit of death is enormoustag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c82d353ef02a2eed716f6200d2022-09-23T07:08:11+02:002022-09-23T07:08:11+02:00Death can only be profitable: there’s no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thousands of years, if you count it up the profit turns out to be...SeduliaJessica Morris: I am set on another path where they cannot follow metag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c82d353ef02a2eed716d9200d2022-09-23T06:46:18+02:002022-09-23T06:46:18+02:00The worst part of it is the feeling of loneliness. For these past almost five years I have been on a journey with my loved ones and friends around me. It’s as though we have been through the wars together,...SeduliaSt. Vincent Millay: I am not resignedtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c82d353ef02a2eed716c0200d2022-09-23T06:34:03+02:002022-09-23T06:34:03+02:00Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned. —Edna...SeduliaDavid Eagleman: There are three deathstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c82d353ef02a308e10f80200c2022-09-23T06:01:24+02:002022-09-23T06:17:49+02:00There are three deaths: the first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the...SeduliaIjeoma Umebinyuo: Healing comes in wavestag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c82d353ef02a308e10f2c200c2022-09-23T05:41:23+02:002022-09-23T06:18:29+02:00healing comes in waves and maybe today the wave hits the rock and that's ok, that's ok, darling you are still healing you are still healing —Ijeoma UmebinyuoSeduliaNigel Barley: Cameroon youth on what happens when you dietag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c82d353ef02a308e10eeb200c2022-09-23T05:27:27+02:002022-09-23T05:27:27+02:00“What happens to a man’s powers/soul/spirit after he dies?” I tried querulously, like a vicar hoping to get a current affairs discussion going at a youth club. They ignored me. Then one young man turned round and snapped, “How should...Sedulia